Word: robs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submarines and airplanes have improved since the last war. But if our merchant ships are to be armed, it will be necessary to rob the navy for gun crews and some guns, and to use a large quantity of World War weapons. The drain on the Navy, the complete inadequacy of the training of the Merchant Marine for combat, and, in many cases, the unsuitability of the deck structure for gun platforms, all form strong arguments against the dangerous and useless gesture of arming our merchant ships...
...didn't get away from "The Get-Away," which features plenty of good close-ups of Tommy guns and a moral as big as a signboard: Don't rob defense payrolls. Personally, we preferred Bob Benchley's brand of "Crime Control...
This hoary plot blossoms like a star shell after the beauteous pair escape to Hong Kong with their love and the Star of Asia. There Mr. Gable dons an army captain's uniform to rob a Chinese, only to find himself inadvertently evacuating British nationals from a city beleaguered by the Japanese. Amid a multitude of jabbering Japanese, sheet-iron tanks and other M.G.M. props, versatile Captain Gable, singlehanded, routs the invaders. Having exhausted the possibilities of the summer's foremost cinematic absurdity, Bombay swiftly rewards its wounded hero and dispatches him to prison (to pay the Hays...
...concerns the adventures of a heartless, self-pitying sadist, who is out to rob his own brother of the sealskins aboard his boat, but whose plans are somewhat complicated by the appearance of a writer on his ship. In this latest movie version, the plot is further complicated by the presence of John Garfield and Ida Lupino, two fugitives from the law who provide the inevitable love interest...
...Nazi-drawn characters are either snow-white or jet-black. Krüger is a simple, modest, wise Boer elder statesman. Cecil Rhodes (Ferdinand Marian) is a rich, conniving Englishman who behaves like a sinister city slicker out of a Class B Western. His one thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister Chamberlain (Gustav Griindgens). Throughout the film only two nations befriend the Boers-The Netherlands and Germany...