Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producers of Five Fingers have added to this true-fantastic tale a number of fanciful touches that detract from the unadorned facts. The picture gives Cicero (James Mason) a beautiful, double-crossing Polish countess (Danielle Darrieux) as his partner in spying and smooching, and has him ending up in a luxurious South American hideout. The film also drags in a few standard cinematic suspense props, e.g., a charwoman accidentally sets off the alarm which Cicero has disconnected while rifling the embassy safe...
...attempt to learn the ancient art for himself. In Author T. H. White's case, the attempt grew mostly out of an urge to pit himself against an exacting challenge, as another man might set out to climb a stubborn mountain. White, the author of a charming Arthurian tale, The Sword in the Stone, and of an excellent small novel, Mistress Masham's Repose, tells his story with an art and force that make it a book to remember...
...tale of Marxist revolutionaries and FBI counter-espionage is told in "I Led Three Lives...
...tell 'em a little tale," he begged. "Tell 'em I'm old enough to join the Army." His mother made him wait until he was 17, but she was delighted. Connie's father, a thin, patient man, had toiled as a West Virginia coal miner for 38 years, and then, seeking opportunity, had moved the family to the noisy streets of The Bronx. All he had found were part-time jobs as a porter and sexton. In Mrs. Charlton's mind, soldiering would be a fine career. When Connie finished his freshman year in high...
...Brando's Zapata could never be the leader of 40,000 men, the symbol of a social movement, or the hero of Mexican folklore--in short, he could not be the real Zapata or even a believable facsimile. And with its central figure reduced to such a nonentity, the tale of Emiliano Zapata becomes a trail of disjointed, purposeless blood and thunder...