Word: raven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partisans Speak. This state of affairs, plus an Allied note of congratulation to Mihailovich from General Eisenhower (TIME, Jan. 25), got under the skin of the Partisans. Stocky, raven-haired Ivan Ribar, chief of the Partisan Free Yugoslav state, broadcast angrily: "Not only have we inflicted great losses on the Axis enemy . . . but for the first time the peoples of Yugoslavia have been united. . . . Don't let Mihailovich's agents crush our unity...
Britain's "Sagittarius" (real name Olga Katzin) has a nasty knack of rhyming world political events into their proper perspective. Her parody of Poe's The Raven was given documentation last week by events in Italy...
...RANDOLPH RAVEN...
...That would be somewhat difficult, since he is the whole show himself. Appearing in nearly every scene, and dominating every other character in the story, Ladd neatly pulls a weak and often aimless story up by his own bootstraps into the realm of first-rate escapist filmfare. As Raven, the grim and psychopathic gunman who doesn't even bother to blink when he polishes off his daily quota of victims, he glides easily through a part that in other hands might well have degenerated into another "boy-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks" role...
...practitioner of the gentle art of elimination is a handsome, green-eyed youngster named Alan Ladd, billed as The Raven. A hired killer, he likes his work, and is not above saying so. Having polished off a blackmailer and his moll before breakfast he returns the stolen poison-gas formula to the chemical-company executive (Laird Cregar) who paid him to get it that way, and submits to one question: "How do you feel when you are doing a job like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker...