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Word: cracher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This gaudy story, filmed as J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I'll Spit on Your Graves), played at four Parisian theaters last week to enthusiastic reviews. But those who had read the novel from which the movie was made should have realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: The Spitter | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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