Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edmond O'Brien has put on a little weight since his last blazing saga, and has a little trouble bounding over the roofs of moving box cars. His expression, long ago worn into the lines on his face, remains an unchanging leer. Dean Jaeger, the benevolent millionnaire on the verge of ruin, looks more the romantic lead than O'Brien. Whisker-checked Sterling Hayden might be taken for a goodie if you sit down in the middle of the picture. But the audience is lulled into believing that jowled O'Brien is the hero, because his leading lady is also...
...firm opinion on the Hiss case will have difficulty in arriving at a critical decision about Whittaker Chambers' Witness. If they feel Hiss is innocent, they will consider the book hogwash. If they feel Hiss is guilty they will hail the book as a testament of faith, a saga of heroism, a magnificent tragedy, a seering political analysis, and a prophetic warning...
Unfortunately, the Sabre saga is not the whole story of the air war, though it gets most of the headlines. On their untouchable-or at least untouched-bases in Manchuria, the Communists now have an estimated 1,700 planes, of which 800 to 900 are jet fighters. While the enemy strength has been rapidly growing, the U.S., because of slow production and commitments in other theaters, has been unable or unwilling even to replace its losses in Korea. Some of the Air Force's 18 wings, including the only two Sabre wings in Korea, are under strength; they probably...
Questions. There were many unanswered questions in the saga. Authorities hoped that treatment at a state hospital for the deaf & dumb at Graz might provide the answers to some of them: doctors guessed that shock had taken his speech. Meanwhile, Janos himself offered one more sphinxlike hint'. On the night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning...
United Artists deserves credit for this attempt to combine semi-documentary crime data with a plea for grassroot citizen reform. Thanks to imaginative direction and a fastmoving scenario, Captive City ranks well above average as a crime saga. Its moral message is somewhat less impressive...