Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In spy-infested Brazil last week the Japs were beginning to take the play away from the Nazis. While busy cops hopped frantically up & down the coast, Japs & more Japs kept turning up, equipped with everything from illegal radio transmitters to detailed maps of Brazil's shoreline. One raid...
He lacks a few teeth and his hair is grey, but at 69 George Humble is all set to ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark...
Two trucks full of furniture stopped just short of the deadline. Negroes gathered on the west side of Ryan Rd., scowling. Tempers mounted. A Negro armed with a shotgun stamped out on his front porch and exhorted his colleagues to march through. A news photographer tried to take his picture...
Largely because Edward Arnold makes a convincing underworld mogul and Edward G. Robinson a passable newspaper editor, "Unholy Partners" is a fairly entertaining cross between the rise of a modern tabloid and the familiar gangster story. If they had cut the pretty blurbs about the ethics of American journalism, this...
Some of Sturges' slapstick sequences (a Keystone cops' auto chase; no less than four people shoved into the swimming pool) are a waste of film and satire. But many another is classic cinema-especially the scene of a Negro pastor cautioning his flock against showing their superiority over...