Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Living Reed, Buck...
Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam's crack "Red Lightning" division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village of Loc Ninh, deep in the Mekong Delta. Slogging through flooded paddyfields and reed swamps, rifles held high, the government soldiers advanced toward the tree line that marked the Viet Cong position. A pasting by napalm, rockets, bombs and machine-gun fire from T-28 fighter-bombers had failed to budge the guerrillas from their camouflaged foxholes. Guns cocked, the ragged Communists calmly held...
...RUNNING MAN, not to be confused with The Third Man, Odd Man Out, The Man Between or Our Man in Havana, is another exciting Manhunt directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed, but the trick this time is to know who is hunting whom...
...last time the membership list provision was protested was in 1952. At that time, three pro-Soviet groups, the John Reed Club, the Young Progressives, and the Harvard Youth for Democracy disbanded after the Faculty Committee decided against changing the rule...
...agent (Alan Bates) from the insurance company! Is the agent merely what he says he is: a man on vacation? Or is he really playing cat-and-mouse with the culprits? If so, the hero decides grimly, two can play at a game. So can three, and Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) is pretty hard to beat. The tension builds nicely, the shocks come pat when they're supposed to, and the last reel combines irony, scenery and the internal-combustion engine in a getaway with...