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...straw hat off one woman's head, tried to put out the fire by waving it over the flames, succeeded only in making them blaze higher. Three U.S. newsmen at the scene were brutally clubbed, kicked and beaten to the ground by plainclothesmen who tried to seize a newsreel camera (see PRESS...
...Santa Clara, Calif., Swim Club. At 16, Schollander set American freestyle records at 200, 400 and 500 yards. Fighting off old age, he twice broke through the two-minute barrier in the 200-meter freestyle before traveling to Japan. Last week, under the mesmerized eyes of TV cameras, newsreel photographers and 7,500 sophisticated Japanese swimming fans, he coolly did it again, "hydroplaning" (as one dazzled Tokyo sportswriter put it) up and down Jingu Pool in the world-record time of 1:58.5; later in Osaka, he even shaved a tenth of a second off that mark...
...worth of segments from old Marilyn Monroe movies, adding some never-seen takes from her last, unfinished film. Fox has brought in Rock Hudson as narrator. The script is a little sticky now and again, but there is no fatigued pseudo-psychoanalysis, nor is there any of the newsreel documentation that so long and frenetically concentrated on the private disaster rather than the public star...
...long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic throughout the film) by suggesting that killing is killing, whether it happens at Verdun or in Landru's kitchen...
...that were so much the secret of the leader's non violent power. Closeups of Casshyap are startling, and a soaring overhead shot, as he walks feebly through the crowd of devotees who have jammed the garden to hear him at prayer, has an immediacy that is more newsreel than make-believe. In the garden the assassin's bullets strike him down, and here Nine Hours to Rama should have ended. Perhaps it never should have begun. To try to tell the story of Gandhi's assassination in terms of a suspense thriller is like making...