Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Violence. The parade (which was duplicated in smaller sizes at Milan, Turin, Padua and Florence) put the Communists in a box. The delicate question facing them was just how much disorder it would be wise to make in the last phase of the campaign. Some violence would help them scare timid voters from the polls, especially Italy's heavily anti-Communist women. But if Communists went too far, they might only provide an excuse for the government to use its force and postpone the elections until the ERP starts to raise Italian living standards and thus lower Communist voting...
...bellowing Head of the Family, Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka), who loves to scare and scandalize all the relatives he dislikes, dies, with a drinker's gasp of satisfaction, after tossing off his last neat drink. Mama, by swapping recipes, wheedles a successful authoress (Florence Bates) into reading Katrin's stories and passing on the secret of literary success (write about what you know); Katrin grows up, to write the stories that tell the whole movie in flashbacks...
Before the broadcast, the Crimson head coach cast aside any fears that the Cambridge climate might scare him back to Michigan by putting his used grey car on the auction block and announcing that he expected a new Crimson car to be delivered some time in the next month...
...Shot at?" Pretty young (27) Mrs. Betty Tobin, a U.N. secretary, pondered the question. She was one of the advance party of the Palestine Commission. "No," she concluded, "it wouldn't scare me. I was in London during the blitz, and you get kind of hardened...
...story scarcely matters except as an excuse for some scare scenes, which are pretty well filmed, and some scare characters, who are amusingly played. George Coulouris uses his trapezoidal shoulders effectively. Hazel Brooks, as a prettied-up version of the Dark Lady of Cartoonist Chas. Addams' horror house, is fine in her part and fun to look...