Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer, and with a sigh asked whether this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferne, the picture successfully translates and condenses the huge novel into a short movie...
...dawn that day in a misty Berlin prison courtyard two cringing figures in suits of coarse sacking were led out, their hands chained behind their backs. Headsman August Gröber, 67 and spry for his age, advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared...
...also tried vainly to save the Tsar. After his White leader, General Kornilov, was killed and the decimated army was being reorganized. Bulygin made his way to Moscow in disguise, to organize a rescue for the Tsar. He got to Ekaterinburg, but was recognized as an officer, put in prison and would probably have been shot if he had not escaped. When he rejoined the Whites he was assigned to assist the late N. A. Sokolov, the official investigator of the Tsar's death. The White armies got to Ekaterinburg only nine days after the executions, and two preliminary...
Shortly before 9 o'clock Mrs. Van de Elst went sweeping up to the prison gate in a cream-colored limousine, shouting through a loudspeaker: "They are hanging an innocent man. We have last-minute evidence to prove it." Three loudspeaker vans were already driving back & forth blaring out "Abide With Me". A mob of 50 sandwich men paraded with signs. Mrs. Van der Elst's supreme inspiration, three airplanes zoomed above the prison, trailing banners, "Stop the Death Sentence." Promptly at 9 o'clock, the trap dropped under Murderer Brigstock. "Gentlemen remove your hats," Cried...
...field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...