Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the story is not one inspiring real admirition. Of course it is hardly fair to expect a director to stress both magnificent camera work and much meaningful dialogue. The story is one of action, with mass sword play, lance charges and a great battle on an ice flow. Eisenstein sacrificed what psychological vitality he could have given the film with additional dialogue for the real article in physical terms...
...skins, ostrich feathers and giraffe tails, pranced to the beat of jungle drums and chanted a song especially composed for the newly arrived Queen: "The daughter of the Chief is ringing her ankle bells. She is our Queen today. As a seabird, she has come to us." Clad in ice-blue, Elizabeth smiled in apparent delight, but in the thick shadows clouding the groves of moonlit acacia trees just beyond her, squads of hard-faced Negro policemen, brought over from Kenya (the better to recognize familiar faces), prowled ceaselessly in search of Mau Mau intruders...
...rest of the Arctic Sea's bottom is mountainous too. The Russians said that earth folds run across it from eastern Siberia to Ellesmere Island, north of Canada. They did not say how they got this information; presumably they did it by echo-sounding through the Arctic ice or through holes...
...reading households have been without their favorite gentleman's gentleman for four years and five months. Now Jeeves is back, cool as dry ice and helpful as money in the bank. Old doters will not find The Return of Jeeves the finest vintage Wodehouse, but it is an adequate little yarn to while away the time that TV hasn't killed...
...cheering crowds that greeted her elsewhere, Elizabeth's Cocosian subjects, gathered 560 strong on Home Island, stood in dignified silence as she stepped ashore with her husband. Clad, men and women alike, in sarongs and transparent ceremonial jackets, they waved little Union Jacks and smiled shyly until the ice was broken by a sudden ringing cheer from a group of Australian airmen from nearby West Island...