Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They would form a third generation of fighters whose appeal to the romantics has often kept the serious from taking them seriously. During the "Troubles"-the insurrections against British rule in 1918-21-I.R.A. gunmen so skillfully harassed the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British "Black and Tans" that Britain finally settled with the Irish Republican leaders for an independent government of the 26 southern counties (Irish Free State), retaining its hold only on the six counties of the north.* The I.R.A. never accepted this partition. Its continued agitation so embarrassed government leaders that President Cosgrave outlawed...
...Last October the I.R.A. raided a British army depot at Omagh, Northern Ireland, but twelve of their number were captured by the British. The raid on the British army barracks at Aborfield, England (TIME, Aug. 22) was the I.R.A.'s third daring attempt to get guns for its gunmen...
Last week the British government made strong representation to the Republic's Prime Minister John Costello to crush the I.R.A. before its gunmen trigger real trouble in Northern Ireland. But it was doubtful whether Costello, who presides over a coalition government, is strong enough to do what De Valera had done. In Costello's Cabinet there are men who agree with ex-Foreign Minister Sean MacBride (son of the late famed Patriot Maud Gonne, and himself an old I.R.A. man) who said: "While the I.R.A. voices the national sentiment of the people, no Irish government would place itself...
...Night Holds Terror (Columbia) may well cut the ground from under the Broadway hit, The Desperate Hours, already bought and filmed by Paramount and scheduled for December release. Like the Broadway play, The Night Holds Terror tells of a family held captive by three gunmen who move into their home and take arrogant possession of their lives, money and possessions. Shot in 18 days on a low budget ($78,000), Night was produced, directed, written and edited by the husband and wife team of Andrew and Virginia Stone. None of the cast has a Hollywood "name"; most of them came...
...When the gunmen depart with her husband, Hildy Parks at last summons the courage to call the police, who agree to cooperate in silence. The tension builds in the last reels through the device of showing the mechanical difficulties of tracing a phone call. The fate of the trapped man oddly becomes less important than the technical riddles that must be solved in determining from what exchange, and in precisely what sequence of numerals, the kidnaper is phoning his instructions. The film ends in the customary blaze of guns, and Kelly is happily reunited with his family. But the film...