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Guitry's business in Lyon was the gala premiéere of his newest film, The Comedian. It turned out to be one of his usual hits. When the show was over, he and his leading lady, Lina Marconi, were driven away for a gay supper. At the lowered barrier of a railway crossing, however, men sprang from the darkness. Said their leader: "We are terribly sorry, Monsieur Sacha Guitry, but we are men of the Resistance and we think it advisable that you come with...
Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...
...points out quite graphically is that the indifferent brutality of police-questioning is a universally-practiced form of inhumanity, and that police frequently become so hardened by their jobs that they will go to any length to finish up a case so that they, too, can go home to supper. "Jenny Lamour" shows how an innocent man can be driven to mental-collapse by the authorized torture methods of the police. In this case, the innocent man would almost have been better off guilty...
...almost down and the quiet purple dusk of the lowlands was rising in the east when the Queen spoke to her people. Housewives fixing supper put down their pots and men in cafés forgot their drinks; bicyclists in the streets stopped to listen at loudspeakers. Queen Wilhelmina's voice was tired and choked with emotion...
...city, it circles an archery meet, follows a fox and tiger hunt up into the blue hills, where the hunters have set up an overnight camp of silken pavilions, and winds down once more to the river where, in the evening cool, a farmer's family is having supper outdoors...