Word: swaggered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately there arose a hue & cry that Colonel Blimps and toffs with swagger sticks were trying to run the people's army. Others, just as alarmed, shouted that the revolution had come. One Peer of the Realm cried out: "You know, all they plan to do is cut our throats one night...
...Dutch diplomat in "Foreign Correspondent," but there are many episodes with genuine genius behind them. Characterization is the forte of this film; no other Hitchcock picture has had such well-drawn dramatis personae. Of course, the hero and heroine are fairly one-dimensional; Robert Cummings is allowed to swagger a bit as Barry Keane, but Priscilla Lane, although skillfully directed to cover up her deficiencies, is bad. The emphasis of the picture rests on the fifth columnists; a trio of them, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, and especially Norman Lloyd in the title role, contribute splendid portrayals. There is an effective...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
...alone worth the admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...
...alert, inquisitive Consul Henry Freese. All he had to do to find out, if he was in any doubt, was to glance at published pictures of the farewell review staged for General Daley in March. One shot showed a battalion at Fort Buchanan, having no rifles, parading with swagger sticks...