Word: manhunters
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...times the picture becomes overdramatic; at other times its philosophizing gets somewhat diffuse. But in Strange Deception, Malaparte has wrought a powerful, impassioned manhunt that is the product of genuine new screen talent. Undisturbed by some of the criticisms leveled against the picture-the Roman Catholic Church in Italy condemned it, and the Communists distributed handbills attacking it-Malaparte is now going ahead with his next film. It will be a movie version of Robinson Crusoe, which he plans to shoot this fall on the Juan Fernandez Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, the scene of the actual...
...head of his security police, Nespoli, began the manhunt full of confidence. At the end of three days he was stumped, and in mortal fear that his failure to find the murderer would mean, literally, his own head. Reluctantly he tried to pin the crime on an innocent scapegoat, a halfwitted girl. When that failed, it was anybody's head. Cassano became a city of pointing fingers...
...begins with a rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...
...office cashier was frantically scrubbing his face with what looked like a handful of dollar bills. This indicates that "Clouded Yellow" is a financial success; it's also a good picture. Producer 'Betty Box' has done a skillful job of combining the three basic thriller plots--espionage, manhunt, and psychological intimidation...
Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...