Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with "nuisance" raiders over Britain at all hours. A lot of their night flights were evidently for training, for extra pilots baled out of many planes brought down. Lest their morale be affected by repeated rebuffs from the defense rings around London, watchful agents of the Gestapo rode in many of the Luftwaffe's formations. R. A. F. called them "German governesses" and took special delight when they were shot down...
Except for German Army cars, everyone in Paris went on foot, on bicycles, or dived into the suffocatingly crowded Métro. The rich resurrected carriages and rode behind cockaded coachmen in barouches or victorias. One banker found a tandem bicycle; put his chauffeur up front, went through the motions of pedaling behind. By night Paris was dead except for the distant thunder of the R. A. F. blasting away at the Le Bourget or Villacoublay airfields...
...Egyptian Government, last week made evacuation of Alexandria so popular that Egyptians evacuated themselves many times over. Weekends away from the city and visits to relatives in the provinces were enjoyed on free evacuation tickets. Catching on, residents of Upper Egypt paid their fare to Alexandria and rode home on the Government...
When The Doltons Rode (Universal), by the same studio and director (George Marshall) who made Destry Rides Again, attempts to repeat that highly successful picture's formula of saddling a horse opera with a fresh script, riding hell-for-leather with a good cast. When elegant Kay Francis is discovered perched on a corral, counting steers and fluttering her false eyelashes at buckish Randolph Scott, the parallel with the picture which revivified Marlene Dietrich with a draft of Western air is unmistakable...
There the parallel ends, for When The Daltons Rode is no sly Destry but a fairly conventional Western whose big-city actors often are merely incongruous. Retelling the story of the famed & feared Dalton gang of the '90s as the saga of a family of farm boys who are dispossessed by a land company and avenge themselves on their fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until...