Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that it's a jolly fine thing to be an Englishman...
...write convincingly about a child's reaction to violence is one real test of a novelist's skill. A few novelists have done it surpassingly well, notably Englishman Richard Hughes in his classic High Wind in Jamaica. Frenchman Francois Boyer, a 30-year-old movie scenarist, does not match his predecessors in The Secret Game, but his story is so ingenious that it obscures the fact that he does not entirely succeed...
...visiting anthropologist who knew very little about the U.S.-say, Englishman Geoffrey Gorer-were to read these two collections of stories, he might easily conclude that the U.S. is suffering from a hopeless schizophrenic split. And he might get just as wildly off base by picking up either one by itself...
...judgment of his peers can. be trusted, Englishman Edmund Clerihew* Bentley wrote one of the best detective stories of the 20th Century. G. K. Chesterton flatly named Trent's Last Case (1913) "the finest detective story of modern times." Agatha Christie calls it "one of the three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty...
...English circus train flails about with its trunk in the cab of a nearby locomotive and sends a passenger train off on a wild, wreck-climaxed run. Just before the crash, a U.S. gangster type slips his revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...