Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unseen (Paramount) has the makings of a good scare picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...
Fury in the Pacific (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps-War Activities Committee) is a short depicting the Marines' capture of the island Peleliu and the Army's latching-down of its neighbor Angaur. The picture is one of a series which the Army is aiming at people in war plants and out of them, urging them respectively to stay there and to get there. It is horrifyingly well designed to serve its purpose. Few war films to date have equaled its record of the fury of war; none has approached its terrible concentration upon...
...Central American Policy. Uncle Sam drove five Indians, representing the five Central American republics, across a stage. The Indians were loaded with shackles labeled "Bananas," "Fixed [coffee] Prices," "The Railroad." Although the Great Good Neighbor cracked his whip, he cooed to the slaves: "I am your friend...
...Blue. Over Germany, the crew of a crippled Liberator bomber bailed out. The pilot, Lieut. Virgil Trombly, landed in a tree, was soon greeted by a U.S. infantryman, his neighbor and high school classmate at Chazy, N.Y., Henry Dickinson. Copilot Lieut. Frank Gorman hit ground safely, immediately spied his neighbor and classmate at Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lieut. David Wick...
...three-day visit from Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, rumored to be the President's choice for chairman of the conference. What the President and the Prime Minister discussed was not disclosed in detail, but it was certain that the conference got more discussion than Neighbor King's home political affairs, about which Franklin Roosevelt had a few kind words to say (see CANADA...