Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it was William C. Bullitt's turn. His offense: an article entitled The World from Rome (LIFE, Sept. 4). The article, a flesh-creeping look at postwar Europe, purported to be from the Roman point of view, but Mr. Bullitt was obviously obeying the honored adage, "When in Rome. . . . "The question in Roman minds, Bullitt reported, was whether the war would not end in the subjugation of Europe by Moscow instead of Berlin...
Standing on the sea of shoes, Maidenek suddenly became real. It was no longer a half-remembered sequence from an old movie or a clipping from Pravda or chapters from a book by a German refugee living in Mexico City. The barbed wire had barbs which ripped flesh. The ashes on the big cabbages were the ashes of the brothers of the worn but pretty peasant women who had spoken to us that morning at Mass...
...which they threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets...
...registered at the nation's box-offices: ¶A popular star does not insure a popular picture. For all its lofty theme and fancy publicity buildup, Madame Curie (starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) was the worst flop of the year. Runners-up: The Purple Heart, Lifeboat, Flesh and Fantasy, Jane Eyre. ¶Going My Way, an unpretentious story of two Catholic priests produced on a low budget and given relatively little publicity, is one of the greatest box-office smashes in a decade. Runners-up this year: The Song of Bernadette, A Guy Named Joe, The Miracle...
...very start one learns the eventual outcome from the rather clumsy method of having Neff, wounded by a bullet from Mrs. Dietrichson's gun, dictate the whole tale to a dictaphone. This flashback technique under the hands of an expert might have been fashioned into a really good flesh-creeper, but instead it merely produces a rather average film with emphasis on plot...