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...certainly the deepest of his gifts is his vital, life-accepting sense of humor. In the film's strongest scene, a rabble of Russian soldiers, ragged and cold and hungry, roll through the night behind the battle lines like cattle stacked in a boxcar and heading for the knacker. They look at each other, they look at what life has done to them, and gently one of them grins and makes a joke; another takes it from there, and suddenly all together they laugh and laugh and laugh until fate's narrow boxcar bursts and the theater booms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave in Russia? | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...Nazi International, with contacts in France, Britain, Spain and Argentina. German firms looking for business in Madrid were told to see Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced ex-SS officer who recaptured Mussolini in 1943. In Buenos Aires the man to see was Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzer knacker (tankbuster) now attached to Dictator Perón's army-training staff, who last week was given special leave to fly to Germany for a "whirlwind tour of speeches" on behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ja or Nein | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...literary abattoir. There they were bludgeoned with ridicule, skewered with wit and butchered with invective; the raw meat was flung to Broadway audiences who ate it up for almost two years. Finally, the whole delightful shambles was tossed (for a down payment of $300,000) to The Great Knacker, Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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