Word: scream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conspiracy of Hearts (Rank; Paramount), an Easter hare from Britain that should have a grand run on the big U.S. circuits, is one of those mercifully rare, inexcusably entertaining sentimental melodramas that leave the customers wondering whether to scream, sob, sniffle, snicker, groan or have a heart attack. In this case, they will probably do a bit of everything, and wind up blissfully bushed by the mightiest emotional binge of the cinema season...
Tiger Bay (Rank; Continental) is a waterfront slum in Cardiff, Wales. A freighter lands. A sailor hurries to his mistress. In the flat where she lives, the table is set for two-but not for him. She suggests that he go "sleep with the sea." With rising fury they scream at each other in Polish, but the przeklenstwa are not loud enough to smother the pistol shots that kill...
...corners her in his den, crushes her in his arms. Suddenly he stares aghast at her shoulder. "Where is it?" "I had it removed." "Our mole?" Kay breaks free, runs around the room with a rose in her teeth. Yul seizes her again. She threatens to scream. He (masterfully): "Go on, scream." She (weakening): "In a minute." He leads her toward the bedroom. "Oh!" she gasps. "I knew this would happen if we got married." She blinks up at him shyly. "Promise me you won't think less of me?" He smirks confidently as she glides away, glides back...
Screened by buildings, Mikoyan and the assembled dignitaries two blocks away heard the shots, and the bewildered audience began to scream. Soldiers aimed their guns at rooftops. Mikoyan slid indoors but reappeared in a few minutes, and the speeches began. Cuba's Commerce Minister warmed up the crowd with the marvelously fortuitous news that he had just received a cabled order from Moscow for 345,000 tons of sugar worth $21,500,000. Then Mikoyan moved in. His theme was to identify Russia and Cuba as comrades fighting the same fight against the U.S. and capitalism. Said Mikoyan...
...flat and a flashy white Mercedes of her own. Then she takes on a sideline: selling information about the German munitions makers to their French competitors. Then she takes on another: blackmail. One night nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll up to the door of her apartment house. A scream is heard. The nine limousines roll out of sight in sober single file...