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Surprisingly, though, the story seldom lags, mainly because some first-chop talents go at it as if the idea were spanking-new. Director René Clèment (Forbidden Games) mounts several taut scenes, especially one in which passengers aboard a crowded train seize a Gestapo agent and fling him onto the rails. Fortunately, too, the dialogue by Novelist Roger Vailland neatly sidesteps heroics. "The war doesn't interest me," drawls Signoret, whose husband is safely lodged in a P.W. camp...
...point during the Government's three-week presentation, Hoffa took to addressing U.S. attorneys as "Gestapo agent" and "Kremlin agent." He threatened Prosecutor James F. Neal with legal proceedings against "you and your bums." Another time, Hoffa offered to fight a U.S. marshal...
...Something is missing in your story about concierges [Jan. 17]. During the war, concierges saved people and property. They would run up the service stairway to warn a tenant when they realized that his callers were the Gestapo coming to arrest and deport or execute him (after torture generally, if he was in the Resistance...
...judge supports this decision as well as the gentlemanly tradition that British Cabinet ministers-unlike civil servants-should be exempt from surveillance save in dire national emer gencies. Concludes Denning: "It would be intolerable to us to have anything in the nature of a Gestapo or Secret Police to snoop into all that we do, let alone into our morals...
...left alone. She fell in love. Her Jewish fiance had a forged identity card. When he applied to marry her, the authorities explained to him that as an Aryan he was forbidden to marry a Jew. He confessed the forgery and they were married. On Sept. 21, 1943 a Gestapo truck drew up to their home. Both died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...