Word: duces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police chief in In the Heat of the Night. For his latest megalomaniac, Steiger has shaved his head and lost 45 Ibs. in order to work with Italian Director Carlo Lizzani on a movie (being shot in English) tentatively called Mussolini... the Last Act. Newsreel flashbacks of the real Duce strutting and posturing at the height of his power will be interspersed with scenes of Steiger playing Mussolini during the last four days of his life. As Steiger says, "He was desperate. He was cornered. He was paying the price of treachery and the ambiguity of those around...
...black convoy drivers in World War II France. The actors are delightful, especially Stu Gilliam as the street-smart sharpie "Sweet" Williams, cherub-faced Hilly Hicks as his Good Book-quoting buddy, and Val Bisoglio as the group's irascible Italian captain spleening his personal vendetta against il Duce. The dominant black vernacular, if slightly too contemporary to be authentic, brings some new life to tired old combat comedy situations, and here and there some jewels sparkle: during an exchange of insults, one soldier is told, "You got enough ugly to open a branch face." In what must...
...early age, he chose a military career. As a military observer in Europe in the late '30s and early '40s, he became spellbound by both Hitler and Mussolini. After meeting Hitler, Perón wrote: "As in Germany, our future will be an inflexible dictatorship." When il Duce died, he said: "Mussolini was the greatest man of our century...
...political trial, the biggest political trial to unfold in Italy since after the war. I am not accused of having done anything, such as broken anybody's head, but only of having thought or said certain things. If I get up and say 'Viva il Duce!' I can go to jail for twelve years. If a Socialist does it, nothing happens...
...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...