Word: prods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Needs Men. A stirring French movie with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...
...Needs Men. A stirring French movie with Pierre -Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...
...Needs Men. A stirring French movie with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...
Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...
...ones that a nervous reader may take to watching his peas and cucumbers in quite a new way. In The Terror of the Twins, space is somehow seized as a weapon in the invisible hands of a spirit, and used to gouge the soul out of one man and prod it into another; the characters are dim as ghosts, but the malefic air is almost as palpable as a knife in the ribs...