Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five weeks ago, the pro-Lumumba troops and goon squads in Kivu went on a drunken rampage, seeking revenge for Lumumba's death. One 75-year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ...
...gags and musical parodies are the real highlights of the show. An unfortunate love duet between Adams and Lund is happily broken up by the entrance of John Valentine as an aerial Cupid. Later, Valentine and Pete White make something hilarious out of the hackeney comic concept of two drunken electrians fooling around with a ladder. Francis Mahard's sets are many and uniformly excellent, as are the costumes designed by Theoni Aldredge...
...Congo itself received the news with sluggish calm, as if Lumumba's death was to be expected. There was some scattered violence-but not the widely predicted blood bath. In Léopoldville, Lumumba fans rioted for a night, and somebody cut a man in half. In Bukavu, drunken Congolese soldiers seized a Roman Catholic priest, cut off his ears and then beheaded...
...picture combines, condenses and reshapes the main story elements of Sanctuary (1931) and its sequel, Requiem for a Nun (1951). Abandoned by her drunken date (Bradford Dillman) at a backwoods distillery, the 17-year-old daughter (Lee Remick) of the governor is raped by the resident bootlegger (Yves Montand) and dragged off to a sporting house in New Orleans, where he keeps her for his private pleasure-which also turns out to be hers. After some weeks he is reported killed and the girl goes sadly home to Papa, who soothes what he assumes to be her injured innocence...
...innocence ruthlessly hunted down and indifferently converted to dog meat makes a shattering comment on an aspect of modern life. But the rest of the picture-despite skillful work by Director John Huston-is rambling, banal, loaded with logy profundities ("I can't make a landing," sobs a drunken pilot, "and I can't get up to God, either"). Perhaps the most suitable comment on the whole business is made by one of Scenarist Miller's characters, who at the dullest point in the picture remarks quietly: "Help...