Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hatfields and McCoys (". . . they wuz reckless mountain boys . . .") were discovered by American Magazine to be feuding no more.† Rooming together and working at a Maryland war plant June Hatfield, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and Susie McCoy, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader Randall McCoy. They visit each other's families without resort to arms, and June plans to marry a real McCoy some...
Angrily they said: "Ai-ah, last year the famine ; now the Jih-pen Kwei" - the Japanese devil...
...triumph of cinemakeup. With uncanny realism it recreates the physical appear ance of the Nazi bigwigs in a fascinating collection of talking waxworks. Paramount hunted high & low for Nazi doubles. The Hitler was easy. Cinemactor Robert Watson has already scared little children in that role in four pictures (The Devil with Hitler, Hitler, Dead or Alive, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Nazi Nuisance). He practiced his earnest performance so strenuously that he wore his larynx to a frazzle. One night the neigh bors, hearing his hysterical yawpings against Jews, came over to beat...
...Daniel grew, the more mediumistic he became. When the family sat down to breakfast, the furniture began to scuttle about. A Baptist minister, called in by Mrs. Cook to exorcise the spirits, could hardly make himself heard above the din of mysterious rappings. "So you've brought the devil to my house, have you?" screamed Mrs. Cook, hurling a chair at her nephew. When he was 18 she kicked him out of the house, threw his Sunday suit after...
...Passage to Marseille" spends too much time on the background material, the escape of a bunch of convicts from Devil's Island who want to fight on our team, and the plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...