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...whose tormented self-quest has made him a patient in a mental institution. George Voskovec plays his psychiatrist and all other speaking roles in a virtuoso acting stint. In pursuit of "psychodramatic therapy," doctor and patient enact Holbrook's life until he winds up as a daredevil motorcyclist in an act called ''The Flying Saucers...
Died. Juanita Hansen, 66, blonde heroine of the silent screen's daredevil thriller serials, who was dragged from Hollywood's heights by dope addiction, later broke the habit and toured the country lecturing on the evils of narcotics, eventually settled down as a Southern Pacific train dispatcher; of a heart attack; in West Hollywood, Calif...
...East Berliners who were still leaping over the parapet to freedom; but to the dismay of officials, four Vopos on a fence-mending detail themselves threw down their tools and took the opportunity to flee west. In front of the wall, Communist workers laid heavy new barriers to frustrate daredevil drivers who had discovered a new way to escape. Most talented of these was the 23-year-old worker who last week packed his wife into the front seat of a five-ton dump truck, got up speed along darkened side streets paralleling the frontier, then roared...
...ride sharks; others guzzle a fifth of gin at one sitting. And some take the 162-ft. ride over Niagara Falls. So far as the records show, six men have gone over-in oak casks, steel barrels, truck inner tubes, bathing trunks-and only three survived. Last week, daredevil No. 7 shot the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a rubber ball and bobbed to the surface grinning broadly, with a few abrasions. Said Nathan Boya, 30, a Negro from The Bronx, N.Y.: "I've always wanted to make this trip...
...Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic stage as well as director Landau; and he has employed it and the rough settings of Robert O' Hearn with stunning resourcefulness. The big military scenes are especially well blocked, and in the climactic battle the soldiers thrillingly vault ten-foot bastions and make daredevil leaps. If Landau has invoked a number of melodramatic touches, it should be remembered that this is the most melodramatic of the tragedies...