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Fate of a Man (in Russian). Sergei Bondarchuk, a top Soviet film maker, directs his own powerful performance in this freely sentimental story of a soldier who is reduced to flotsam by war, then made whole again by the love of an orphan...
Fate of a Man (in Russian). Sergei Bondarchuk, one of the most noted Soviet film makers, directs his own powerful performance in this freely sentimental story of a soldier who is reduced to flotsam by war, then made whole again by the love of an orphan...
...slogs through his days dulled with despair, not even bothering to stew himself with vodka. Then he sees a five-year-old orphan boy gnawing at a melon rind. Out of pity and his own sorrow, he tells the child that he is his father. The boy is not really fooled, but he accepts the pretense with joy. The two walk off down a mud road to the man's village, where he will take up life as a carpenter again...
Fanny (Joshua Logan; Warners) is a waif who has knocked around for almost as long as Little Orphan Annie; the difference is that now and then she changes her dress. French Filmmaker Marcel Pagnol...
...State Rusk, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Latin America Task Force Chief Adolf A. Berle-have marched up Capitol Hill to give their answers. The hearings are closed, but enough testimony has leaked out to prove President Kennedy's wry comment. "Victory has 100 fathers, and defeat is an orphan." Everyone, it seems, blames everyone else...