Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the pen name "Tet Toe," which means "Progress," Newsman Pe has translated many Western classics for Burmese readers. Among them : Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ludwig's Napoleon and several De Maupassant short stories. One less classical On Pe translation: Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. With his new novel he plans to reverse the process by translating it into English for British and American readers...
...rogues' gallery: a ruthless hooligan (Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso); a pathetic nightclub trollop (Jean Hagen); a cynically corrupt detective (Barry Kelley...