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...usual "shoot-em up" effects of guns, liquor, and women appear in Casablanca without seeming to be the cliches. Maybe it is because Humphrey Bogart is holding both the guns and his liquor, and maybe it is because Ingrid Bergman is the woman. At any rate, Casablanca is outstanding. Few people wear a trench coat or a frown as well as Bogie and no one can rival Ingrid in looking wistful...
...friend (Juliette Mayniel), and his will to work. In the end the country cousin fails his examinations and the city cousin casually shoots him dead with a gun he didn't know was loaded. And that, the moral would seem to be, is one way to keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree...
They Came to Cordura. A Gary Cooper shoot-'em-up with depth, exploring the nature of courage-physical and spiritual. With Rita Hayworth...
Returned to the Brattle this week is a shoot-em-up called the "Magnificent Seven" about life on the frontier in feudal Japan. With good taste and a vivid sense of the possibilities of photography, director Akira (Rash-omon) Kuosowa has told a lusty story of seven samurais who, skilled in fighting and adept in Zen, organize a little farming village against an annual bandit raid...
...advances made by the Soviet Union. Last week the Russians offered to join our Alliance Club, in flagrant violation of the 1960 Summit Treaty. However, I assure you that our policy, conceived by the top machines in the country, is firmly rooted in our two great principles: the Give-em-an-inch-and-they'll-take-a-foot Doctrine, and the You-can-trust-the-Russians-as-far-as-you-can-throw-them Policy...