Word: snipering
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...Deeper Wound. The improbable chance caught up with Orwell when a sniper winged him. But for a man of his intense integrity the deeper wound came when he went back to Barcelona on sick leave. To his horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still...
...bigger and better mental institutions to care for perverts, are some of the best moments of chair-edge suspense Hollywood has come up with since The Man on the Eiffel Tower. The story is told through the movements, looks, and bits of talk of Arthur Franz, the sniper, and not by tiresome, obvious explanations...
Over 3000 women were shot down, "by person or persons unknown," in the streets of this country's cities last year. Seven times that number were injured, beaten, or raped by sexual perverts. Almost every woman has been "peeped at" or bothered at some time in her life. The Sniper is the tale of one oddly twisted man who limited his passion to sniping at young brunettes...
...carbine and a good eye. The socialites act like socialites and demand the police "do something," and the newspapermen behave almost like newspapermen and threaten to turn the mayor out, of office if the killer is not caught. Except for a couple of lucky breaks, necessary to catch the sniper in an hour and a half, the police go through the dull routine of looking for tips on an unknown man who shoots almost anyone, anywhere, at any time...
This reality, characteristic of a Stanley Kramer production, comes off with the support of San Francisco. The serene, yet topographically distorted city players both the reflector for the sniper's perversion and the background for the everyday extras. George Antheils' background music is tailored to both and gives away neither...