Word: din
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tolbukhin's victory was the reward of daring. After a gap was torn in the Nazi lines north of Taganrog, his tanks and Cossacks rushed in, then wheeled south towards the sea. Other units, meanwhile, stormed Taganrog's front gates. When the din of battle died down, 35,000 Nazi corpses littered the steppe, 5,100 dejected survivors straggled into prisoner pens...
...definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn't pack the wallop that "Gunga Din" or "Roy Ralston--Cowboy...
...place where a pin could be heard to drop. It has been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz...
...improving world. I could hear the birds singing again, and people were laughing; I knew I was the luckiest man in all the world." He celebrated with a farewell bombing, climbed through the clouds reciting poetry in time with the engine. "To the verses of 'Gunga Din' I dropped my first bomb ... on the docks of Homalin. ... I finished my ammunition by strafing the main street of [Lashio] . . . saw two plate-glass windows spatter . . . like artificial snow from a Christmas tree, and I laughed hysterically as two figures ran from a pagoda. . . . I landed back home tired...
...pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked with his own name and machine-guns hordes of advancing Japs...