Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, while their clinic flourished, the old brothers stiff-armed the law. Charged with federal mail fraud, they began to send out their literature by Railway Express. In 1947, the State of Indiana started action to take away their licenses. Dr. Peter fought the case through the courts, finally lost last January...
...Russian officer turns to leave the American, German, Englishman, and French woman he has met on the Berlin express, he lets fall to the pavement the card bearing the American's address. An insidious fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye...
Whether or not you care for the allegory, "Berlin Express" is still an unusual and interesting film. Hollywood has combined its own mastery of technique in moviemaking with the mature semi-documentary approach so often used to advantage in British films and has produced a picture that brings along with its message a realistic portrayal of Germany as it is today...
...spoken. While never employed so as to confuse the plot, the languages lend an authenticity that is seldom realized in motion pictures. Then, as the scene moves from the streets of Paris, which actually are the streets of Paris, through Gare de l'Est and via the Berlin express into Germany, the marked degree of authenticity is preserved at all times. While the camera seems to have focused with a morbid fascination on those areas of Frankfort and later Berlin that are complete devastation, it also picks up along the way the petty black marketeers of the railroad stations...
Blanks on which potential hosts may express their preference as to nationality, interests, age, and sex of their prospective guests may be obtained at Phillips Brooks House, Richard said...