Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelfth century Japan was a land of serene beauty. Delicate white temples rose out of quiet lakes, and low, clean houses graced the green countryside. But the serenity was an illusion, for the men who ruled this paradise reigned with violence. Gate of Hell, one of the most beautiful films of recent years, reveals both the violence and the calm of Japan bathed in a sea of lovely colors...
Despite the quiet power of the actors, the rainbow of colors which envelopes the scenes of Japan and the photography which captured them give the film its true distinction. Through the efforts of the director and his color adviser, Gate of Hell proves what few Western pictures have ever hinted: that the camera's eye for detail and motion and the artist's eye for design and color can work together to produce a work of visual as well as dramatic impact...
...with all the bank employes accounted for, the bandits entered, herded eleven people into a 6 by 5 ft. vault, whose inner gate they locked with a chain and padlock foresightedly brought for the purpose. "Thank God they didn't close the vault doors," said one prisoner. The head teller collapsed in a faint and the others kept quiet. "I hugged the wall," said one later. "I wasn't going to get fresh." The hold-up men had eight minutes before opening time, and that was enough. By 9 a.m. the three bandits were quietly driving away with...
Toby, into one of the two cars headed for Chartwell, tears stood once again in the old man's eyes. But by the time he reached his Kent home, the old Churchillian spirit was back to par. Some 30 villagers were on hand to meet him at the gate, and Churchill greeted them warmly. "Come on inside the grounds," he urged enthusiastically. "Come on, all of you, and have a look at my goldfish." The villagers swarmed in to take advantage of the invitation. "Yes," said Churchill, just before entering the house, "it's good to be home...
...Elongated "corn cob" flowers reach up like snakes under the spell of a charmer's flute. The subject and Wardsworth's careful painting suggest comparison with the primitive, Theodore Rousseau, although the atmosphere is not quite so mysterious or internal. In another oil painting honored by the judges, "Meyer Gate," Donald Outerbridge uses the staccato brush technique of the pointillists to create a Seurat-like composition...