Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a secluded cabin, 8,000 ft. up in California's Sierra Nevada range, stood two bare-chested men basking in the mid-afternoon sun. Not far away, hidden by the underbrush, 16 other men closed in silently around the cabin. They looked like unshaven, jean-clad campers, but they were actually FBI agents, armed with pistols and carbines. When they had completed their circle, at a prearranged moment, five sedans carrying reinforcements rattled down a dirt road to a point 20 yards from the cabin. Slowly the G-men converged on the cabin, covered the two sunbathers, routed...
Bewildered Innocence. The prize catch of the high Sierra hunt, a bloated, pink-haired man whose oversized pants were held up by a money belt stuffed with $50 bills, was a study of bewildered innocence. He produced drivers' licenses identifying himself as one John Francis Brennan. But the FBI men tagged him on the spot with a fingerprint test as Robert Thompson, one of the eleven top Communist leaders who were convicted in 1949 of violation of the Smith Act. Two years ago, ordered to report to begin his three-year penitentiary term, he jumped bail, disappeared into...
...that I'm crazy about birds particularly-I'm interested in all nature. I've just chosen the bird as a symbol. I'm really concerned with form, and birds offer wonderful plastic possibilities." Brought up in a remote part of the Sierra Madre foothills, O'Hanlon could hardly help being interested in nature...
...last they set sail for home. On the way, Cinqé quarreled with the missionaries, the other Africans grew restive. At Sierra Leone, when they saw many of their countrymen, they flung off their clothes to show their tribal tattoos. The missionaries were aghast. Worse yet, some of the Africans deserted the mission, hit out for home. Cinqué went with them...
...original Ivy Films-H.L.U. petition was precipitated when both organizations scheduled "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" for their spring series...