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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen who watched Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart win World War II take a brass-knuckle beating in Sword's ostensibly fair-to-everybody script. When the Voice of Israel (Marta Toren) is captured, a Tommy bucks her up by remarking, "I say, what rotten luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Revolution (no French bishop dared offend Napoleon by pushing the sainthood of a member of the old regime). In 1905, when the process was finally resumed, authorities insisted that at least one more miracle would be necessary. In 1932 occurred what was regarded as an authentic miracle: French Nun Marta Fourrier, apparently on the verge of death from a duodenal ulcer, was suddenly cured when someone at her bedside called upon Jeanne de Valois for help. Last week the cause of Jeanne de Valois reached almost the end of the long road. In the Vatican's red damask Consistorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Patient Princess | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome, fearless U.S. intelligence officer (Dick Powell) whose spy contact in Saïgon is a sultry nightclub singer (Marta Toren). The comic strips could take it from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Colombian coffee is good and I have taken it in the drab little cafés on the misty Bogota savannah, in subtropical Gali and industrial Medellin, as well as in picturesque Cartagena, sultry Santa Marta and sandy Barranquilla. But certainly it is not worth ten centavos [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...quarter of Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides his time; of a native girl (Yvonne de Carlo), weighed down with costume jewelry, who loves Pépé; and of the French tourist Gaby (Marta Toren), atwitter with diamonds, through love of whom Pépé is lured to disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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