Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate lie...
...British troops come to the farm of Krüger's pacifistic, English-educated son, Jan (Werner Hinz), molest his wife, drive him into the Boer forces. In a concentration camp his wife and children are starved, whaled with rifle butts by the sadistic British. Dead prisoners lie in open ditches while bored guards cover them with quicklime. The camp commandant lives the life of Riley with a mistress and a puffy bulldog to whom he feeds juicy steaks. Meantime Lord Kitchener announces that the war shall proceed against women & children...
Bette Davis is without a doubt one of the most talented actresses in Hollywood, and "The Great Lie" allows her to unlax and act the part of a natural appealing woman instead of being forced to play such priggish parts as a Jezebel or a Queen Elizabeth...
Ably supported by George Brent and Mary Astor, Bette Davis gives a completely convincing performance of a wife whose family life was all based on a great lie. Unknown to her husband she is not the mother of his son. The movie is tense with the psychological struggle which embroils Bette with the mother of this son who returns to claim his father. By skillful direction and able use of restraint this intensity is maintained up to the final scenes where Brent as the husband finally learns of the great lie and makes his decision...