Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MANY tales have been written from the first wanderings of Aeneas to the romantic adventures of the Sea Devil of the World War, but few have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole...
Langdell--Eagen, Conrad v. Root--Hunziker, Rice...
...police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster. Despite waste motion and a high degree of improbability, those who like to shiver at make-believe gunmen will be able to do so. Conrad Nagel, playing the hero, wears without embarrassment the name of "Handsome...
...Conrad, William James, W. H. Hudson, John Galsworthy. In July, 1914, he finished what was to have been his last book, The Good Soldier, joined a Welsh regiment as lieutenant, and went to the front. Returning from the War with health impaired, he wrote two novels in anger which were not published. He intended to write no more. He changed his mind, however, and in 1922 commenced his famed series dealing with England and the War, Some Do Not, No More Parades, and A Man Could Stand Up. The fourth and final novel of this sequence, The Last Post, will...
Husbands or Lovers provides somewhat sombre proof that immorality is poor policy. The wife (Elizabeth Bergner) leaves her husband (Emil Jannings) for a lover (Conrad Veidt) who grows tired of strenuous affection in a furnished room. At the last she decides the question of husband or lover by choosing neither and committing suicide. All this does not make for light entertainment; but, like most films made in Germany, the picture displays the advantages of intelligent direction with fine acting...