Word: guns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern of flight at Xieng Kho was repeated all along the river. A single-engine Beaver plane loaded with grenades, small arms and munitions, which was squared off to land at the weedy Muong Het airstrip, was met by machine-gun fire, barely got back to report that Muong Het had also fallen. An entire royal Laotian battalion of some 700 men, plus 400 home guards, had been cut to pieces...
...French army, it was a nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting a submachine gun that his father, an ex-home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took Amkha's troops nearly three days' march. The wounded died where they fell, or were borne by litter, dugout...
...Hole in the Head (United Artists), 4) Porgy and Bess (Columbia), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) The Nun's Story (Warner), 7) The Big Circus (Allied Artists), 8) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Buena Vista), 9) Five Pennies (Paramount), 10) Last Train from Gun Hill (Paramount...
Last Train from Gun Hill. A slick, saddle-soap opera of TV's "adult" school, with Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas shooting it up and Caroline Jones as an appealing tart...
Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Caroline Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine...