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...modern kid uses a lot of words picked up from movies, comic books and newspapers, says Dr. Seashore. He estimates that the average kid starting school can identify about 17,000 basic words (e.g., loyal), and from them derive the meaning of about 6,000 more words e.g., loyalist...
...also present at the villa, en route to Loyalist Spain, is the ex-consul's halfbrother, Hugh, a leftwing, guitar-playing rover who has been in love with Yvonne for years. By nightfall of the same day, Hugh and Yvorme have been drawn together-and the helpless consul is lying dead in a ravine, shot by a gang of Mexican semi-fascist desperadoes who mistake him for his leftist halfbrother...
Eisler appeared in Moscow to attend a Comintern school, in Spain as commissar of German Loyalist troops. In 1939, during the days of the Russo-German pact, he was in France. He was thrown into a concentration camp, kept there until 1941. Released, he assumed the role of a harmless refugee, headed for the U.S. again...
This unusual film was made in and near Barcelona during the death agonies of the Loyalist cause. It was produced and directed by the famed French novelist and soldier, Andre Malraux, from episodes in his book of the same title. The film had to be smuggled into France, where post-Munich timidity prevented its release. Throughout the German occupation it was hidden. Malraux's first & only film, it places him-as readers might have guessed from the cinematic elements in his writing-among the few top movie talents...
...picture tells of its war-and of the world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high...