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Word: sinistere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Three Musketeers | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Rogues' Regiment (Universal-International) revives the reliable old French Foreign Legion and throws in a few renegade Nazis for good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

While Superman represents the outer limits of fantasy in the current crop of radio thrillers for the kiddies, Captain Midnight's show contains features common to most of the quasi-credible serials. The hero is surrounded by at least two youthful subordinates, and usually has a humorous character whose harmless...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: II | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Universal), from the British thriller of the same name,* is told in a despairing cinematic monotone almost as dismal as its title. A beached merchant sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Parties & Outlooks. Almost the first official act of the government last June was to release Sydney Robey Leibbrandt and others convicted of pro-Nazi agitation and anti-war activities during World War II (TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Revolution | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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