Word: dunkirks
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...lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down the transCaucasian railway left one body of the Red Army, probably a small one, cut off as were the British at Dunkirk. Instead of a Channel, the Black Sea was at the Russians' back. Already the Germans were bombing transports which they said the Red Army was using in a small-scale Dunkirk...
Tyrone Power as the embittered and moody Clive Brooks is as miscast as any actor in Hollywood could be. Gone is the novel's prematurely aged man who has endured hell at Dunkirk, and who, feeling that his nation's social system is not worth fighting for, has deserted from the army. Instead, the audience is treated to the spectacle of a dashing lover who tries his hardest to be convincing with consistent failure...
Sights of Washington: Captain Vivian Cornelius, the handsome Britisher who was wounded during the evacuation of Dunkirk and who has caused "heart attacks" to several Washington society ladies...
Piper Woolley is never quite sure how he came by all of them. He started with two: the son and daughter of a League of Nations official and his wife. After Dunkirk he agreed, with the massive reluctance of a club-bound, child-hating Englishman, to take them to England while their parents returned to Geneva...
Walter Pidgeon, an architect, uses his pleasure yacht to rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, while his wife, Greer Garson, whose worries heretofore consisted in choosing her latest fall hat, is accosted by a wounded Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husbank under the rain of Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husband under the rain...