Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sedative. In Seattle, Richard Ace Brundage, onetime volunteer fireman, confessed to setting four fires because "when the siren blows it seems to calm my nerves...
Minutes passed before the Effingham volunteer fire department, awakened by the station-house siren, got from their beds to the firehouse; by the time the first engine had ended a screaming 70-mile-an-hour run, desperate patients were leaping out windows. Yelling firemen hurriedly began raising ladders. So did nearby householders. Other men & women dragged mattresses from their houses, tried to use them to break the fall of those who were poised to leap with the flames licking at them...
Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film...
Aumont is fine as the dashing legionnaire, but nothing can save the ill-fated plot. "Siren of Atlantis" started with an original idea and developed it poorly...
...wheel in this novel civilization is a slinky siren named Antinea (Maria Montez). When a couple of the Foreign Legion boys (Jean Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe) blunder into her boudoir cooking for a missing French archeologist (he shows up eventually, tidily gold-leafed in the Visitors' Gallery), she plays them off against each other. Then she plays both off against the old embalming fluid...