Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What this country needs is a terrific shaking-up, a war, a devil of an earthquake. But one can't wish that either. Life here is sweet, pleasant. The sky is blue; the mountains, the women are enchanting; the climate, the peace...
...whether I blame the State Department and never President Roosevelt, I could quote you dozens of passages to the contrary; but, what the devil, libraries are dusty, time is short, violets are blue and hooray...
...Frenchman (Victor Francen). One of his passengers (Sydney Greenstreet) is a professional soldier and a Fascist. An air corps officer (Claude Rains) is blithely unconcerned when he realizes that five derelicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, George Tobias) whom the ship picks up are fugitives from Devil's Island. They have escaped in order to fight for France...
...love with him and does her equally un complaining nurse's part; various people from whom he "borrows" money he will never repay, with whom he makes dates he never keeps or from whom he buys the liquor that is alternately his salvation, his personal devil and his end-all − all these people are seen only from Don Birnam's view; they are important only in so far as they reflect his situation or supply the background for his lyrical ad ventures...
...stream of Graeco-Roman culture. It happened also in Germany. Mr. Flynn's plain point is that fascism can come to any Western capitalist nation, and he thinks that it is coming to the U.S. if someone doesn't figure out a way to lick old devil budget...