Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FACT IS THAT PICTURE IS BEING MADE BY JOHN W. ROGERS AND HARRY JOE BROWN FOR INDEPENDENT RELEASE. . . . SLATE IN SCENE IS FOR FILM CUTTER AND DIRECTOR'S USE IN FINAL CUTTING OF PICTURE, INDICATING PROPER SEQUENCE OF SCENES. NO PRISON PICTURE THIS BUT WELL DONE STORY OF FOOTBALL TWINS' FAME AT WEST POINT AND AT HOME, GIVING PUBLIC WHO COULD NOT SEE ARMY TEAM IN ACTION CHANCE TO SEE THREE-TIME ALL-AMERICAN BOYS IN ACTION...
Russia had placed an iron mop in the hands of Ana Pauker, its No. 1 Rumanian Communist, and Ana was busy mopping up. A fortnight ago, the leaders of the liberal National Peasant Party had been arrested (TIME, July 28). Aging (74) ex-Premier Juliu Maniu was in Malmaison Prison. Jon Mihalache had been moved to the cellar of the Ministry of Interior. Last week a rubber-stamp parliament outlawed the National Peasant Party, Rumania's majority party (70% of voters...
Communist Interior Minister Teohari Georgescu's home-grown version of the Soviet MVD snatched some 5,000 persons from offices, homes and streets. They were not all Peasant Party members. But they were mostly Maniu followers. In the prison basement of the white marble ministry they got ari MVD-style* rubber hosing with one purpose: to extort confessions exposing a National Peasant Party plot against Kremlin Puppet Petru Groza and the Soviet Union...
...traditional time (4 a.m.) on the traditional day for executions (Tuesday), the British hanged three Jewish terrorists in the Acre prison. The three had been captured at the same prison twelve weeks before when they had released other terrorists in a costly raid...
...Burt Lancaster, but is not otherwise to be compared with Hellinger's The Killers. The Killers may have been hammy, but it was grade-A ham, so adroitly served up that the picture got on several of last year's ten-best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith...