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...story: a lonely young Londoner (Ray Milland), at an apparently fatuous parish bazaar, by mischance speaks a password which puts him in possession of a cake. When various people threaten his life and risk theirs in their effort to get the cake away from him, he begins to realize that he somehow has the key to an elaborate and very sinister Nazi spy-plot. When the detective he hires to help him is murdered, he is in no position to call the matter to the attention of the police, because he has only recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Break. Out of the leading Sherman's turret popped a bandaged head. The man with the bandage and the big shiner on his right eye yelled the proper password. He was Lieut. Colonel Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commanding the 4th Armored Division's rescue spearhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Hole in the Doughnut | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Said one WPBster, sniffing the air of sweet reasonableness that suddenly filled Washington: "The password is love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something for Everybody | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...hoarse, frightened voice I kept whispering the password, hoping someone would hear and help. From a nearby hedge I heard voices. I hung still a moment, breathless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Parachute Landing in Normandy | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...join a highly fictional guerrilla army."Let's scorch the earth!" cries implausible Housewife Emma Dunn. They do-and a good deal of the picture's force and persuasiveness go up in smoke. Otherwise, The Cross of Lorraine (which takes its name from its undergrounders' Guallist password) is one of the best war films that has been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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