Word: cristo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures made to follow the book even fairly closely, "The Count of Monte Cristo" as a film does a welcome justice to Dumas. In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer and with a sigh asked if this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferno, the work of newcomer Robert Donta as Edmund Danta was refreshingly outstanding. Elissa Landi is as beautiful as ever though not very much in evidence...
...lynched. His flight fills four scenes with excitement. As Lonnie's peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush to the aid of the besieged blacks, the play's strictly...
...young cutups began to wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King!'' They made for him, but he fought them off with powerful squirts from a pale blue soda siphon. They wrecked the restaurant instead...
While sub-machine-gunners of the Chicago gangster type assassinated the chief of Cuba's Secret Police and two aides who were riding in his car (TIME, July 18) Motorcycle Policeman Felix del Cristo ("Felix of the Christ") hid behind a monumental beacon, neither chased the gangster car nor took its number...
...such un-policemanly behavior Felix del Cristo was dishonorably discharged last week, clapped into Atares Fortress. Four days later Major Crespo, Commandant of the Fortress, tersely announced the death of Felix del Cristo, said he had hung himself in his cell, using a sheet...