Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nightmarish Scenario. There were thin patches of silver, lining: i) Malan is fiercely antiCommunist, hates Soviet Russia even more than he hates Britain; 2) with a slim working majority in a time of world crisis, he may feel impelled, for a while at least, to go slow. But literate Britons in South Africa queasily remembered a book called When Smuts Goes-a lurid, Wellsian prophecy of South Africa's future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule...
...nightmarish scenario, but there was no escaping the fact that the first installment of Dr. Keppel-Jones's prophecy had come true...
...hoping to be the first to register priority on the film title "The Iron Curtain" for future production. Twentieth-Century Fox won the footrace and subsequently assigned a Mr. Milton Krims to fill in the required screen play. The same Mr. Krims can be significantly remembered for his other scenario--"Confessions of a Nazi Spy." The sure fire true story of the Canadian Soviet spy ring naturally presented itself as his answer: the results could hardly be other than socko for the Box Office. That is, as long as the wind from Capitol Hill and the Kremlin and stockholders such...
...from the standpoint of authenticity for Mr. Rank to have much of the film photographed in proper pre-Mazdaian darkness, it becomes, after a while, a tiresome puzzle even to identify the various members of the large and distinguished cast, many of whom possess faces of singular peculiarity. The scenario is not easy to follow, either. This is because the numerous sub-plots have not been integrated and are told in quick episodic fashion which is further aggravated by the slashing of whole scenes from the American version. Film continuity, while not always a prescribed virtue, would have been helpful...
...back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with the Luftwaffe...