Word: schloss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poisoned Darts. Anouilh's hero, Antoine de St. Flour, is dead when the curtain rises. A famed French playwright who retired from the world to a Bavarian Schloss on his 50th birthday, he has been killed in a shotgun accident that may have been a suicide. A group of characters from his past have been summoned for the reading of the will. They make up a nicely varied assortment: two ex-wives-one of them an old dreadnought of an actress superbly played by Françoise Rosay-three mistresses and three men, including a dyspeptic theater critic, jealous...
...time-155 long minutes of it-goes by, our boys storm, fight and bluff their way past the usual cretinous Nazis, snatch the general and head back down the mountain. Along the way, they slaughter a couple of hundred Germans, blast the Schloss, battle the bad guys to the death on top of a cable car, knock out a bridge and cripple an airport. Not bad for a night's work...
...whose parents take him to the African jungle around the turn of the century to escape the sinks of civilization. Vati and Mutti promptly perish, of course, and little Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough training to convince a commission that he is competent to take over his rightful...
...Government); John A. Howell, of Arlington (Physics); Michael M. Lieber, of Arlington, Va. (Bichemical Sciences); Christopher Mitchell, of New York City (Government); Stuart A. Pizer, of Staten Island, N.Y. (English); Garret D. Rosenblatt, of San Francisco, Calif. (History and Lit.); Steven E. Rubin, of Malden (Biology); and Irving S. Schloss, of Riverdale, N.Y. (History...
Soon the mother abbess (Peggy Wood) finds a solution. She sends the moonbeam off to shine as governess for Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, slickly miscast), a widower who shares his palatial Schloss with seven troublesome but more or less irresistible children. Appalled by the captain's ironfisted discipline, Maria coddles the youngsters. One stormy eve she packs them all into bed with her, quieting their fears with some doughty Hammerstein stanzas. Eventually she teaches them to sing, captivates their father and marries him. Together they lead their septet across the border to Switzerland, with storm troopers baying...