Word: manhunt
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...acting and of direction are more of the camera than of the sound-track, Americans need not be disturbed by the poor English titles. Nor should they become impatient if the plot seems complicated at first, for they will find much more in "Open City" than its story of manhunt, torture, and death...
...American genre has been called the tough, the hardboiled, the wacky and several other names. It earned the epithets because it is apt to mix the pleasures of the wake and the manhunt in a combination of hard drink, hilarity and homicide. It inclines to make murder a laughing matter and put the question of Who Will Swing for It to the arbitrament of alcohol...
...miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
...curb the great manhunt sweeping France, Charles de Gaulle asked resisters behind the lines to give up their arms (women partisans first). He planned to draft the F.F.I.'s trigger-itchy young men into the regular French Army...
...leads to the highway to Georgetown, ten miles away. Several of the Marines had been at Guadalcanal, and knew how to drive off mosquitoes at night with small fires of pine cones. Their only excitement came when four Nazi prisoners escaped in Georgia; Hobcaw kept close track of the manhunt, until the last two Germans were caught at Columbia...