Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian film, "Tragic Hunt," is in the best tradition of recent importations from that country in its simplicity of plot, its relaxed realism, and its superior acting. It is not, however, precisely what the Kenmore management would have you believe a New York critic called it--"The best Italian film to reach this country." It can not stand up to "Open City" or "To Live in Peace," for example, as consistently successful cinema art. Still, there are some very fine moments of melodrama in "Tragic Hunt," that rate it well with the earlier films and make its director...
...Tragic Hunt" begins with some money being delivered by a government agent to a farming village in order that it may pay for harvesting equipment and rent. The money is stolen by a gang of desperate, unemployed Italians, one of whom happens to be a veteran of a German prison camp. The remainder of the film deals with the citizens' chase after the robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease...
...perhaps quibbling to pick at "Tragic Hunt" in the face of our Hollywood output: it is only the recent Italian standard of excellence that justifies this. At any rate, it shouldn't be missed by the connoisseur...
...presenting guest lecturers at least once a month and conducting classes in elementary electronics, the new group hopes to keep its members informed of latest developments in electronics and communications. Later this month, Frederick V. Hunt, also a Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, will speak on audio amplifiers, loudspeakers, and recording...
...page, they found a handsome "Raffles," who had allegedly stolen $1,000,000 in furs and jewels, and kept mistresses on both coasts and "was said to resemble Ronald Colman" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the News, they read all about a tenacious housewife whose 2-YEAR, $7,000 HUNT FINDS LOST HUSBAND-and who obviously did not intend to let him get away again...