Word: lair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Joseph Stalin laid out the Red Army's objectives: "Now the last, final mission remains for the Red Army, namely to complete, together with the armies of our Allies, the task of defeating the German fascist armies, finishing off the fascist beast in his own lair and raising over Berlin the banner of victory. There is ground to reckon on this task being fulfilled by the Red Army in the near future...
Laura (Gene Tierney) is an ambitious beginner in the advertising business when she dares to beard the exquisite columnist-commentator Waldo Lydecker (Webb) in his noontime lair at the Algonquin. Though her nerve earns her some carbolic insults from the great man, it makes her in almost no time his protegee. As such, she soon becomes a high-powered executive and gives a job to polo-playing Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), under the very nose of his only visible means of support, Park Avenue's well-heeled Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). Both Ann and Waldo are patently annoyed...
Candlelight in Algeria (British Lion 20th Century-Fox) illuminates a dark corner of the invasion of North Africa. Its heroine (Carla Lehmann), a Kansas-born sculptress, hides a fugitive Englishman (James Mason) from the local Nazi chief (Walter Rilla). Later she snitches a small camera from the lair of a collaborationist nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically...
...made possible by correct strategy, high morale, first-rate Soviet war equipment. ... A considerable contribution to our success has been made by our great allies. ... To rid our country and the countries allied with us from the danger of enslavement, we must pursue the wounded German beast ... to its lair. . . . This problem . . . can be solved by means of coordinated blows from the east. by our troops and from the west by troops of our allies...
Since the policy of the Gayety Theatre does not encourage either previews or reviews of its current screen offerings (the management feels that such comment will fall to do full justice to its shows), this is the first and perhaps the last excursion of The Moviegoer into the lair of naughty, risque films...