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...short. Her skin has an Irish whiteness, with a memory of freckles across the nose, and her eyes widen and contract with theatrical exaggeration to accent the tumbling flow of her talk. When she tells an anecdote, gesturing extravagantly, she plays all the roles involved, right down to such spear-carriers as waiters and scrubwomen...
...Vision process (special polarized glasses for viewers), Bwana Devil gives a blurry illusion of depth. Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, onetime radio scriptwriter, uses three-dimension as a trick rather than a creative tool. The moviegoer seems to see a lion leaping into his lap, a native throwing a spear from the screen. But even in 3-D, Bwana Devil is a singularly flat adventure yarn...
...desert outpost of Kapenguria,the Queen's lawyers proceeded in slow, judicial fashion against Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino...
Mobilist Alexander Calder saw his "prisoner" as two black triangles pierced with a spear. Philadelphia's Wharton Esherick used a pair of leaning monoliths to convey his idea. Others showed a tiny figure trapped, fly-like, in a conical web of wires; shapeless wooden chunks joined by metal bars; a writhing metal mass with sharp edges and a pair of protruding wings. Only one winner gave his prisoner a human form...
...Wandorobe savages (who get ?10 per Mau Mau head) to stamp out the terror. So far 13,000 Kikuyus have been rounded up as Mau Mau suspects; several dozen have been killed and four hanged. Yet few white settlers believe the Mau Mau can be crushed until Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the bearded Kikuyu whom the government accuses of masterminding the terrorists, is safely locked away...