Word: corsicans
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...really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist of plot, that beauteous Janet Leigh is not really his sister, as he had supposed. This latter development prompts Eleanor Parker, a red-haired hellcat with whom Granger has been whiling away the previous reels, to console herself with a young Corsican lieutenant named Napoleon Bonaparte...
...offensive against the Reds was led by a rugged, fiery Corsican, Pierre Ferri-Pisani, now 50. He and Brown had met in-Marseille, become friends. With Brown's help, Ferri-Pisani found "men brave enough," went to Communist headquarters in Marseille and delivered an ultimatum: "If there is any trouble on the docks, we will not bother with the men you send to cause it. No, within 48 hours we will ask you to pay personally." Red bosses ran for police protection. The first Communist who tried to fire Ferri-Pisani's men was chucked into the harbor...
...been released, with an advertising splurge featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...
...ominous offscreen voice introduces the picture and most of its characters, lingers over a definition of "vendetta" until the dullest schoolboy in the balcony can understand what it means. Then the movie spells out its story just as laboriously. Colomba (Faith Domergue), a proud Corsican beauty, determines to avenge her father's murder by members of the villainous Barricini family. She makes her brother (George Dolenz) the instrument of her revenge and, incidentally, the object of her more-than-sisterly affections...
...sitting pina?" they alone at a asked. cafe. "C'est moi," "Monsieur answered Della-le petit gros, "I'll follow you. But please don't tell my boys what I've done." At police headquarters the inspectors found that their prisoner was a Corsican refugee from the police of Marseille, who wanted him for the murder of a Nor wegian consul general in 1946. His part ner, he said, was another Corsican named Mondonini, also wanted for other crimes...