Word: stalag
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...flashbacks are introduced with surprising clumsiness. These, happily, are not typical moments. More characteristic are the sweeping visual panorama of the whole film (stunningly photographed by Lucien Ballard) and the extraordinarily forceful acting from a troupe of Hollywood professionals. Holden hasn't done such good work since Stalag 17, and the bunch -Ernest Borgnine, Warren Gates, Ben Johnson, Edmond O'Brien, Jaime Sanchez-all look and sound as if they had stepped out of a discarded daguerreotype. As the reluctant head of the band of bounty hunters, Robert Ryan gives the screen performance of his career...
...painfully fresh. If mass arrests overflow the Cook County Jail, officials are prepared to put prisoners in tents in the jail yard. While the candidates trade charges on whether the convention is open or closed, it is, physically at any rate, the tightest in U.S. history-a kind of Stalag '68. Already the demonstrators have achieved the feat of forcing a major party to pick a candidate for President behind barbed wire, in a charged atmosphere reminiscent of a police state...
...this point, as the comedy bogs down along with the escape plans, the Germans move in and transfer the group to a sadistic stalag, where Frigg has a real chance to strut his stuff. This leads, of course, to a bit of bang-bang, followed by a spot of kiss-kiss, and then it's time to wake...
...field, reporting the war from the Arab side proved difficult. For days after Egypt expelled U.S. citizens, no transport was available, so Correspondent Roger Stone was interned with 21 other newsmen in a dingy Cairo hotel called the Nile, where life, as he put it, "was a game of Stalag 17." In Beirut, Lee Griggs, reinforced by James Wilde from our Paris bureau, was still able to work, but things were hardly pleasant. In the street, Griggs met an Arab acquaintance walking with a group of other Arabs. The man sidled up to him, mumbling, "I have to do this...
Died. Sig Ruman, 82, German-born character actor whose fate it was to be come Hollywood's idea of the typical "Kraut," the beefy, blustering, blundering seriocomic German, a role he played in endless films, most notably as Sergeant Schultz in 1953's Stalag 17; of a heart attack; in Julian, Calif...