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...mountain district of Aures, terrorists stopped a car containing a kaid (rural chieftain) who was also a French army captain, and a young French husband and wife who were teachers. They clubbed the kaid to a pulp, then killed the Frenchman, then stabbed and raped the young woman, who survived and was rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Suitcase or Coffin? | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Saadia (M-G-M). "I will not allow any man to look at my body," moans Saadia (Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague. In the end, of course, she wins the No. 1 bunk in the kaid's harem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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