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...drama built around the after effects of a miscarriage of justice in a situation paralleling the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Winterset starts with a quick outline of a 1920 payroll robbery. Three gangsters - Trock Estrella (Eduardo Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Circumstances complicate his mission. One is that when he meets Margo in the square outside her house, they fall in love with each other. The others are that both Judge Gaunt (Edward Ellis), who sentenced Romagna, and Trock Estrella, just out of prison and dying of consumption, have also seen newspaper stories which suggest the advisability of reopening the case. All three-the killer, the avenger and the blundering judge-arrive at the Esdras basement tenement the same night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Open rebellion was declared fortnight ago by a group under the leadership of "Supreme Chief" Rafael Estrella Urena. It was to him that Courier Cabot raced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANTO DOMINGO: Courier Cabot | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

Married. Constanza, daughter of rebellious onetime Premiere José Sanchez Guerra of Spain; and Lieut. José Estrella of the Spanish navy, one of her father's guards while he was a state prisoner aboard the gunboat Dato (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929 et seq.); at Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Best Flyers | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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