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...dungeon shook and the chain jell...
...Dungeons & Boycotts. "The interests of truth are dependent upon freedom of thought . . . It is, in fact, good for truth to have to struggle with error . . . The conscientious expression of ideas must not be dealt with by a dungeon, a boycott or an index, nor by arbitrary governmental action, character assassination or the application of unjust economic or social pressures...
...Queen's marshals caught Gerard in London. Later he was taken to the Tower and questioned about his "accomplices." When he refused to tell where his superior was hiding, he was tortured for two days in the Tower dungeon. For hours at a time he was hung by his manacled hands from the dungeon ceiling, but he never gave his friends away...
...course, there are other actors in this ten-year-old adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel--Thomas Mitchell is excellent as the Beggar King of backstreet Paris, even Maureen O'Hara is adequate as a gypsy dancer who violates some sort of 16th century McCarran Act and gets the Dungeon in return. For my money, though, it's Laughton all the way. His sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose...
Warden Duffy began one of the most dramatic housecleaning jobs in penal history. He fired the brutish captain of guards and six other sadistic "screws," sternly prohibited the use of clubs, lashes, straps and hoses. He closed up the "hole" -a dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...