Word: duel
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...turned local bandit, by her snarling contralto rendition of Der Tannenbaum (Maryland! My Maryland!); San Francisco in its heyday, which includes 1) an infatuated Russian multimillionaire (Walter Slezak), 2) the attempted pirating of a Chinese junk, 3) its sagacious proprietor, who speaks Oriental proverbs in Edinburr dialect, 4) a duel with rapiers on a blood-red floor, 5) a hair-raising stagecoach chase, 6) a happy ending. This does not, perhaps, give a very clear idea of the story, but that is no great loss. One of the odd things about this odd picture is that there really...
...officer named Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), back from the Boer War with a V.C., who takes it upon himself-very much without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom he has shyly begun to love...
...picture would be no great shakes as a story if at every point, through a dozen means other than those of plot, it did not make itself illuminating, touching, and delightful. The tortuous protocols of preparation for the duel, and the duel itself, between the brave but reluctant contestants, is as pretty a satire on diplomacy and war and national character as the movies have achieved. Candy's relationship with his beloved girls, reticent, boyishly idealistic and far more deeply felt than the eye can see, is a moving exposition of a kind of love the movies rarely...
...French people, still not fully aware of the long personal duel between F.D.R. and De Gaulle, were puzzled. Their press told the story in bits & pieces. Some papers politely took Franklin Roosevelt to task for summoning Charles de Gaulle from his capital to an out-of-the-way meeting place. But others unloosed cautious criticism of General de Gaulle himself. Was not Le Grand Charlie being a little too proud and stiff-necked? Said L'Aurore: "We must repeat that we remain a great power, but should we not all the more carefully avoid showing bad humor?" Added...
Harvard's Mike Keene battled 6 foot 2 center Johnny Bach in a thrilling individual scoring duel, with the Brown star winning out by the slim margin of one basket, 20 points...