Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That problem, Marshall declared, was one not of form but of substance. The veto was merely the expression of a larger obstacle to world peace-Russian intransigence. If the veto were banished from U.N., it would still exist in the world-as Russian armed force...
...Russian obduracy was based on the hope that democracy needed just one more shove before it collapsed. The U.S. intended to prove that it would not collapse. If the Russians were forced to realize that Communism had to live in the world with democracy, George Marshall thought, they would cooperate. Until they did, forcing changes in the forms of international cooperation was not only wasted but also dangerous effort...
...Russian officer turns to leave the American, German, Englishman, and French woman he has met on the Berlin express, he lets fall to the pavement the card bearing the American's address. An insidious fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye...
...cooperate for a common cause, the film otherwise derives so much strength from its realism that the illogical coincidences are almost forgiven. The first striking device employed to lift the picture out of the depths in which American movies usually remain mired is the use of French, German, or Russian whenever they would ordinarily be spoken. While never employed so as to confuse the plot, the languages lend an authenticity that is seldom realized in motion pictures. Then, as the scene moves from the streets of Paris, which actually are the streets of Paris, through Gare...
Messrs. Laughton, Camera and Milestone also do the best they can, and once in a while-notably at a White Russian birthday party-the picture comes to some kind of life. But on the whole the show has a kind of pathos that is not the kind intended; the spectacle of a lot of talented people, before and behind the camera, doing their desperate best in an effort which they seem clearly to know is foredoomed...