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...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...
...just 19 minutes. Even the pickets cheered. The glory and honor of France were unblemished, and the 1936 song of Jerome Kern's was laid to rest.* "When you are a sailor," explained Captain Garrigue to admiring newsmen, "you must never worry." Then he went off to splice the mainbrace...
...easter of the winter was burying New England in gale-blown snow and raising pure white hell offshore. Blinding snow, 50-ft. waves, and winds up to 90 miles an hour smashed the distressed tanker as the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and the Navy cargo ship Short Splice hunted her. Just after noon, she broke...
...become plain that she was a shelled cripple. No sooner was she tied up than her whole crew was relieved, to become the week-long guests of the Fleet Club. From England, King George personally ordered an extra round of grog for all hands with the time-honored phrase: "Splice the main brace...
...King was delighted. He called the Amethyst's escape a "daring exploit," personally ordered the frigate's crew to "splice the mainbrace"-break out an extra order of grog for all hands. In Shanghai, the Communist press ignored the Amethyst's escape completely. Shanghai British celebrated discreetly. "We're glad they're out of it," said one, "but there's no point in crowing over it. After all, we're still here...