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Jesus chose "the day of his death" by allowing himself to be arrested the night before the start of Passover; he pronounced his own death sentence when answering Caiaphas' question, "Are you the Messiah?" He bluntly said, "Yes, I am." Such careful timing assured Jesus that his body would...
Eyewitnesses to Fu's execution are baffled when the corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes...
KING AND COUNTRY. Pity and terror are evoked by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) and by Actor Tom Courtenay as a baffled army deserter en route to his execution during World War I.
KING AND COUNTRY. Pity and terror are evoked by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) and by Actor Tom Courtenay as a baffled army deserter en route to his execution during World War I.
Unlucky Lucky. One army officer who has been heard from, though, is Lieut. Colonel Untung, the obscure battalion commander in Sukarno's palace guard who launched the abortive revolt. Untung, whose name in Indonesian means "lucky," pushed nomenclature too far: riding on a bus also named Lucky, Untung was...