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England entered World War I, according to the Chancellor of Germany, "just for a scrap of paper."* In Black and White in Color, a dusty outpost in French West Africa also enters the war for a scrap of paper-a yellowed newspaper from home, which reveals that the conflict has been raging in Europe for six months...
Until this moment in 1915, the white colonials in the outpost have been on congenial terms with a nearby, equally unaware German settlement. Now they work themselves into a froth of jingoism and decide they must attack their neighbors. More precisely-and this touches one of the film's controlling ironies-they decide their black natives must attack the Germans' natives...
Certainly nothing much happens in the Russian provincial military outpost where the three sisters are exiled psychologically as well as physically from their dear beloved Moscow. Boredom, drunkenness, mean gossip and despair are the town's leading resources, and the sisters drown in anguish...
What a pair of demons Strindberg has mated here. An embittered captain of Swedish artillery and his frustrated wife, a former actress, are serving out time on a rock-pile island outpost. As their 25th anniversary approaches, they have perfected the purest hatred for each other. Like the most passionately obsessed lovers, they live in a universe where nobody else exists. The only other character in the play, the wife's cousin, who introduced them, serves merely as a catalyst to their anti-chemistry...
...watch on the Rio Grande is a most crucial outpost in the ceaseless war of nerves with the illegal Mexican immigrants. Here they can be quickly apprehended and returned home with a minimum of fuss and expense. The problem is catching them, for they have as many escape routes as the snakelike Rio Grande has bends. Maintaining the daily vigil in the Harlingen sector of the Texas-Mexican border is Roland Lomblot, 51, a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. He and his eleven-man crew capture an average of 200 aliens a month. But the agents...