Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead of Night isn't quite that good-but it is smoothly acted, cleverly directed, well off the beaten Hollywood path. It offers the same sort of spine-cooling thrill you get from listening to a group of accomplished liars swapping ghost stories...
...King George Road, toted away its files. The British slapped a curfew on much of Palestine; truckloads of raiding parties in full war kit rounded up more than a thousand Jews, including the Agency leaders. Except for the armored cars and truckloads of British troops, Jerusalem was a ghost town. Jewish children had a hilarious time taunting guards into chasing them. Many a Tommy obliged. But the day passed with little violence. The official casualty list was one Tommy, four Jews killed...
Outside the office of Secretary of State Byrnes, curious reporters made another try. Whimsically, Inverchapel explained that until he had presented his credentials to the President he was only "a ghost, an astral body." The solid ghost, with a red face and a big nose, then evaporated in the general direction of the solid and stately British Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...week, however, written statements had ground out of the White House mill on meat controls, surplus property, traffic safety, diplomatic missions, water development. White House reporters, inundated with handouts, thought they saw the paper ghost of another era-the White House spokesman...
...workmanlike, professional production, with occasional good writing and uniformly fine acting. "Laura" might have been a welcome addition to the 1946 season. But it never becomes more than mediocre theatre because the ghost of a fine motion picture hovers about...