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Word: shockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that no moviegoer should learn in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Shrike (Universal-International), adapted from Joseph Kramm's coldly furious Pulitzer Prizewinning play (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), is both colder and angrier than it was on the stage. As a Broadway hit, it was a protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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