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...death, he is able to reassure an old lady that her departed son is well and happy, a small girl that her little brother has elephants to play with. He attends an important conference in time to cast the vote that defeats a treaty which would have injured Sylvaria. Then he confronts his murderer. Shortly afterward, smiling bravely and clutching at his boutonnière, he dies for the second time, peacefully, in a garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Hours to Live (Fox). The hero of this picture is cinema's most extraordinary corpse, Captain Paul Onslow, the head diplomat of a country called Sylvaria, who has been strangled by his political opponents. One of those loose-lipped scientists who exist only in countries like Sylvaria takes a quick look at Captain Onslow's cadaver and says that he can revivify it, for six hours. He does so with a display of electricity and a large glass barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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