Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next. Marcello diverted himself by killing animals. "It was from cruelty that he derived the only pleasures that did not seem . . . insipid." At 13, he suffered an unforgettable shock: a grownup invited Marcello to his room to see a revolver, then began making homosexual passes. Marcello, in a panic of fear and fascination, picked up the revolver, fired and fled...
Kazan, who directed "Streetcar," describes the studio's panic at the news, after the picture had been cleared by the Breen office but before it had been released, that it was marked for a "C" or "Condemned" rating by the Legion. What the studio heads feared, it seems, was not merely that Catholics would be instructed not to see it. "They feared ... that theatres showing the picture would be picketed, might be threatened with boycotts of as long as a year's duration if they dared to show it, that priests would be stationed in the lobbies to take down...
Klaatu's escape touches off a vast monster-hunt, demonstrating the earthlings' frightening capacity for panic, ignorance, unreasoning hostility and pygmy-minded self-seeking. He finally accomplishes his mission, thanks to a young war widow (Patricia Neal), her eleven-year-old son (Billy Gray) and the earth's leading scientist, well played by Sam Jaffe with an Einstein hairdo...
...plane hurtled above the crowd upside down, started to roll over and up. Then with an eerie roar it ripped downward, crushed spectators, smashed six cars, including an ambulance. In an instant, the happy crowd was turned into a panic-stricken, blood-spattered mass of humanity screaming in terror and pain...
Brusquely he stopped the panic in Hanoi, canceled the order for evacuation of women & children, brought his own wife from France to his side. Like a burst from a Tommy gun, he cut down and broke incompetent and sluggard officers, cleared the goldbrickers out of the saloons and brothels, conferred on the worst of them what his soldiers came to call "the order of the steamship ticket," i.e., packed them off to France...