Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep in its other troubles, Japan suddenly took time out for a spy scare. In an urgent broadcast, Radio Tokyo warned: "Enemy spy activities are becoming more & more intense . . . [their] great field is communications, such as mail, the telegraph and telephone...
...pleasant if not terribly exciting idea is to bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...
...seems to me that the opposite implication can be found in the analogy, namely, that the Emperor is to be destroyed if we want to destroy the present anachronistic Japanese society. The word "disintegration" a la beehive seems to scare Mr. Grew. Obviously all Japanese would not wither and die when the Emperor is disposed of, as the hive does when the queen dies. What would happen...
...fell. With their fellow refugees, they had lived like natives, eating rice and bananas and sleeping in grass, huts with bamboo floors. Often, when the Japs were rumored to be advancing, they had hurriedly abandoned the little settlement and hid out in native huts or in foxholes until the scare passed. When the Japs finally did come to Hopevale, there was no warning...
...good cinema unfortunately rather rare in U.S. movies. In this case, however, much of the picture is more literary than lively and neglects its crass possibilities as melodrama. The exceptions provide an anthology of eminently nasty creeps and jolts. The sudden snort of a horse is timed to scare the daylights out of you; there is a grisly shot of Lugosi's slaughtered head, distorted beneath brine ; and the last passage in the picture is as all-out, hair-raising a climax to a horror film as you are ever likely...