Word: sadists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feared the pilot was lost. Much greater would have been their alarm if they had known that inside the lurching plane its pilot and his one small assistant were desperately fending off the attack of a bull-strong U. S. baseball player who had suddenly become a growling, biting sadist...
...movie to be seen. We arrived full of dinner and somewhat preoccupied about Sally Rand, so missed being as frightened as we should have been. But that's not the fault of the movie. Starring Peter Lorrie, it deals with certain untoward incidents that occur when a bald sadist grafts a dead murderer's hands onto the wrists of a managled musician whose wife the sadist purposes to annex. Pretty? After the operation the musician (ably played by Colin Clive) is surprised to find his repertoire more or less limited to chopsticks, but he doesn't really catch...
...fatal decadence of Russian rulers. One of Zena's aunts, under the influence of religious charlatans who were then dominant at the Russian court, wanted to subsidize Pan-Slavic conspirators in the Balkans, had her husband assassinated in order to secure his fortune. An uncle, a sadist, lived in barbaric splendor in Italy, once compelled his guests, including Julian, to witness the flogging of a financier's wife who had been caught cheating at cards...
...makes The Man Who Knew Too Much one of the neatest melodramas of the year. Furthermore it includes the first English-speaking cinema performance of Peter Lorre, who, as the chubby, anarchist fiend, enacts a part which admirers are likely to consider comparable to his famed portrayal of the sadist hero...
Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...