Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans were still sure that it is better to win a war than lose it. They were sure that, if it came to war again, they would win again. But Americans, like all the rest of mankind, had also begun to suspect that if war's weapons grew much more powerful, victory and defeat might be equated. What would the victor do in a blasted or half-blasted world...
There are a few surprising failures in a movie so generally well made. Sample: the sergeant and a suspect, hiding out from the law in an all-night movie house talk so loudly that they destroy the suspense. But most of Crossfire is a first-rate thriller, notably well written (by John Paxton) and directed (by Edward Dmytryk). Its chief weakness concerns its main theme...
...Only an illusion, explains Herz. Actually, he says, the sun is much closer to the earth than most people suspect; in fact, it is probably somewhere near the South Pole. What people see in the sky is not the sun, but its "reflection," cast on the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, the earth, according to Herz, rotates more slowly than is generally believed-perhaps as slowly as one revolution every 28 days. Since the dawdling sun's "reflection" whips around the earth every 24 hours, it's not very surprising that people have been confused all these years...
...lady, blackmails Mature into taking her for a visit to his elegant country mansion. There she hobnobs uneasily with his jealous fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with her main suspect. Next thing she knows, she is in line for the Bible, the moss rose, and the hair's-breadth intervention of Scotland Yard (Vincent Price...
...Poland, where he grew up, Moische joined the Workers' Party. This made him suspect by the Communists. When Germany and Russia partitioned his country, he was sent to Siberia, to do forced labor in the mines. When Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R., Moische and many of his fellows were released. Moische wandered around southern Russia and, because he was bright and hardworking, came to be supervisor of a factory. He and his boss did a little black marketing and the Russians put him in jail. He served two years and went home to Poland, although...