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...Seventh Cross (M.G.M.). When anti-Fascist George Heisler (Spencer Tracy) escapes from Westhofen Concentration Camp, he has faith in nobody and in nothing. Only the most rudimentary instinct for self-preservation keeps him moving, as, sleepless and starved, his hand torn and infected, he creeps from culvert to tool shed to woodpile and at length to Mainz, his native city. One by one his comrades in escape are captured, their dying bodies taken back to hang on six crosses in the courtyard of the camp. The seventh cross waits for Heisler, and waits in vain. And little by little...
There are others: the rich architect (George Macready) whose wife shames him into courage; the hotel barmaid (Signe Hasso) with whom Heisler spends his last night in Germany; the old delicatessen man (Felix Bressart) who finally brings him into contact with the underground. By the time George Heisler leaves Germany he knows he has a lifelong debt to pay, not only to full-time antiFascists like himself, but also to many simple human beings, who had risked helping him out of the goodness of their hearts...
...escaped prisoners hide out in a velvet-fogged marsh, full of artistically silhouetted reeds, which belongs, if anywhere, in Coronet. Heisler's exhaustion, fear and mistrust are merely stage props, never a living agony of nerves and soul. Tracy himself, careful and sincere and able as he is, is wrong for the role. By strong implication in the novel, George Heisler was a dramatically and morally fascinating species of human being, typical of 20th-century Europe if unfamiliar in the U.S.-a seasoned and astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except...
...summary: BRITISH TARS HARVARD Brickell, g. g., Harshman Chemberlain, l.f.b. r.f.b., Day Reed, r.f.b. l.f.b., Knowlton Manning, l.h.b. r.h.b., Omar Yates, c.h.b. c.h.b., Curtin Yary, r.h.b. l.h.b., Chapin Lucas, l.o.f. r.o.f., Guild Smail, l.i.f. l.i.f., Pearson Markham, c.f. c.f., Heisler Black, r.i.f. r.i.f., Potter Walker, r.o.f. l.o.f., Sternberg
Coach Jack MacDonald was greatly encouraged by the improvement that the squad has shown. Playing without several of their most experienced men, the team managed to score four times to win the game. The Crimson attack was headed by Roy Heisler '47, who booted over three tallies. Pete Jessner '47 registered the fourth goal...