Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that some of them have a secret and subversive passion for Tchaikovsky? Does she really understand what they are up to? Does she know, with her feelings as well as with her mind, that Russia is a terrible and terrorized police state, ruled with complete cynicism by "a gang of ruthless and bloody-minded professors"?*That is a question which still troubles those who find it not difficult to resist her charm...
...Young and the Damned (Oscar Dancigers; Mayer-Kingsley) are a gang of savage slum children running wild on the outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road...
...Bunuel examines the piles of rubble, squalid hovels and garbage heaps where people scrounge for food like animals. The acting, by a cast that is largely amateur, is as nakedly authentic as the settings, particularly in the performance of Roberto Cobo as Jaibo, the frighteningly cruel leader of the gang, and Miguel Inclan as the old blind beggar who intones a litany of hate for the boys, "One less, one less," as Jaibo is shot down by the police...
...Inquisitor from Shaw's "Saint Joan." Harry L. Senger '53 will give selections from Willard Motley's "Knock on Any Door." Stanley E. Tobin '53 will present the "Plumed Knight," by James G. Blaine. Pirie M. Tutchings '54 will give the "Independence Day Speech of the Chain Gang Boss," from Paul Green's "Hymn to the Rising...
Strangely enough, the second feature is almost better than the first. A foggy English thriller entitled Cloud-burst, it methodically picks a murder mystery apart, but falls flat at the very end when the murder surrenders himself to the old gang at Scotland Yard...