Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Werner ("Fighting against my people now is fighting for them") and a tough Wehrmacht sergeant (Hans Christian Blech) who works for the Americans "because you're winning the war." Werner's dangerous mission behind German lines to locate the position of a Panzer army develops into an odyssey through the German state of mind. Tormented inwardly by reminders of his old loyalties, he finds despair, spiritual decay, flickering compassion, Nazi brutishness and remnants of a severe Prussian sense of honor...
...budding British novelist. During World War II, he rose through the Royal Navy to command, in succession, three escort vessels, a corvette and two frigates, all on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. In The Cruel Sea, his first full-length novel since the war, Monsarrat writes a moving odyssey of the convoy...
...well-and with books often considerably more worth reading. Among the popular books in the reprint market were George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky, and James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. Even The Iliad and The Odyssey sold about 100,000 copies apiece this year. Perhaps the weary, lazy public just wanted good books at a low price...
...Johann is a naive young farmhand who is sent to a labor camp by a police official who covets his wife. Traian is a famous novelist and minor diplomat whose first internment comes when the Yugoslavs pick him up as an enemy alien. Once imprisoned, each begins a pointless odyssey of torture and despair that ends with Traian's death in a camp and Johann's enlistment (to escape another round of internments) in the army of "the West" at the start of World...
...Rose devotes much of its footage to an unlikely romance between Power, as the self-exiled bastard son of a Norman earl, and a prattling slave girl-played by plump-cheeked young (20) French Starlet Cecile Aubry as if she were a fugitive from Little Women. Power's odyssey through Asia with a stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that it's a jolly fine thing...