Word: spined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Greene) arrives at the black castle, he is i) attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black Castle tries hard to chill the moviegoer's spine. Most of the time, however, this boy-meets-ghoul melodrama is only tepid theatrics...
...Hadley, played by Sterling Hayden, served time in Hellgate Military Prison near Copper City, New Mexico. The Hellgate of the movies, called America's Devil's Island, includes a subterranean series of barred caves, a tender hearted commandant, a sadistic sergeant, and enough tortures to send chills along the spine of Charles Addams...
Dial "M" for Murder (by Frederick Knott) is that always welcome visitor, an unusually satisfying thriller. Playwright Knott is not only more ingenious than most members of the current Spine Trust, but being British is more urbane as well. Maurice Evans has abandoned battlements and blank verse to play a dinner-jacketed modern villain, while John Williams, as a Scotland Yard inspector, sees justice done with engaging suavity...
...then Godard seemed in worse shape than ever. A Plexiglas support swathed his injured spine, holding his neck and back rigid. His weight had dropped from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
...assaulters escaped, and subsequent examination revealed that Chief Randall suffered a ruptured spine disk. Throughout the summer, he was hospitalized and will return only temporarily during the fall until the injury heals...