Word: sahara
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...Bury them in the Sahara? (A staggering transportation problem...
...through the movies. Film producers have either gone off the sentimental deep end, as in "Since you Went Away," or they have shown war with the personal toughness of Hemingway, as the British and Russians have done consistently and an Hollywood has done in such pictures as "Purple Heart," "Sahara," and the service releases. "Music for Million a" takes a rather careless view...
...have wanted to bring off just this sort of dead-static drama, so daringly ascetic in its denial of all the screen is supposed to need most and do best. Few have tried it, and none has succeeded more shrewdly than Zoltan Korda. With last year's excellent Sahara, this film puts him among the country's top directors...
...owes a debt, however, to James Wong Howe's beautiful photography, to Scriptwriter John Howard Lawson (who also wrote Sahara), and to the eight Germans who, barring some excesses forced on them by the script, make up a supporting cast the like of which is dreamed of but seldom seen. In his fatter, more difficult role Paul Muni is as fine as they are so long as he takes it easy, but when he gets busy as an actor, his sincere, carefully paragraphed work seems unreal beside the Germans' snapshot authenticity...
...Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour for the Duke and Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa since 1942, ostensibly to build a trans-Sahara pipeline for edible oil, Bedaux was nabbed there recently on a charge of trading with the enemy, brought to the U.S. by air, faced the possibility of a treason trial. Manhattan's Bedaux Co., Inc., pulled a quick name-change on learning of Bedaux's suicide, asserted...