Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also playing at the Exeter is "Broken Journey," a product of J. Arthur Rank's movies to date. A handful of peculiar characters crash in a transcontinental plane high atop a glacier. Before they are rescued, they have driven each other and the audience crazy. The only worthwhile acting is that of obese Francis L. Sullivan whose jowls vibrate as he sings operatic selections for his hungry fellow travellers. Don't rush to catch the beginning of this film because nothing much happens in the first hour and a half...
...plentifully larded with other lurid items: a suicide attempt, a dream which shows the end of the world coming when everybody panics at seeing some dirty words mysteriously written in the sky, and another dream in which Jesus Christ passes along the Wylie doctrine to the men in the plane about to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima...
...evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt. We are always working, you know. In that respect we live on a plane different from that of you Westerners...
...Augsburg aircraft plant, Messerschmitt last week was busy buying new machinery and adding to his original staff. The bustle reminded him of the wartime plane-building days. He is currently producing 40 prefabricated houses a month. "This is only the beginning," he said...
...wartime Germany few names were more esteemed than that of Willy Messerschmitt, Germany's brightest plane designer. When Hermann Goring used to bellow for more fighters, fighters, fighters, it was "Professor" Messerschmitt who turned them out. Allied pilots paid Willy the highest compliment: when one of them began to jerk his head around nervously they called it "the Messerschmitt twitch...