Word: jeepful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While covering a meeting of the anti-British Fadayan Islam, Bell ran into a strange sort of trouble. He and three other correspondents jeeped up to the Shah's Mosque, where a Fadayan fanatic had assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara. The crowd of Fadayans suddenly became a shouting, angry mob, surrounded the correspondents' jeep, beat on the window curtains and bounced the little car around. After three false starts down dead-end streets, the correspondents escaped. The cause of all the row: the rioters had thought that Bell was Winston Churchill...
Four In a Jeep (Lazar Wechsler; United Artists), like Swiss Producer Lazar Wechsler's The Last Chance and The Search, is a compassionate study of human rubble left in Europe by World War II. This time the scene is Vienna under its four-power occupation, and the picture's concern is as much with the war's distrustful victors as with its uprooted vanquished. The two are skillfully interwoven in the story of how a four-man M.P. patrol-U.S., Russian, French, British-reacts to the plight of a young Viennese (Viveca Lindfors) whose husband...
...result is a timely, poignant film that cannot be shown in Russia; the Moscow delegates to the Cannes Film Festival in April protested that it was unfriendly to them. Yet it represents the Russian member (Yoseph Yadin) of the jeep patrol as a man no less fundamentally decent than the other three, implies strongly that the West's quarrel is not with the Russian people but with their rulers. Indeed, because the Russian M.P. is the creature of an inflexible system, he feels an inner conflict that makes him the most striking of the four and, in a sense...
Filmed mostly in Vienna's International Zone (during three months when the Russians were not exercising the command), Four in a Jeep strengthens its air of authenticity by having each of its characters speak in his own language, though most of them also speak English. Subtitles in English are seldom needed, sparingly used...
...Chinese tried to surrender to Major General Clark Ruffner, pugnacious commander of the U.S. 2nd Division. "This guy stepped out of the woods," said Ruffner, "and walked up to my jeep with his hands in the air. I couldn't stop to fool with him, so I motioned him to sit down beside the road and wait for the approaching column. He did. The last I saw of him, he was still squatting there waiting for someone to take...