Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marianne took up the tale. "The food was terrible. Potatoes and fish. If we asked for seconds, we were gourmandes. And after the way we were working! We lived in the rooms where we worked and we could not leave the house. Sentries stopped us at the door. We made three kroner par coup (nominally $1.40), which added up. But when we sent our money home, the filthy Boche stole...
...handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably than the old came-the-dawn subtitles used...
...this picture a great one, and a lack of it is just what makes "Double Indemnity" a distinctly mediocre film. At the very start one learns the eventual outcome from the rather clumsy method of having Neff, wounded by a bullet from Mrs. Dietrichson's gun, dictate the whole tale to a dictaphone. This flashback technique under the hands of an expert might have been fashioned into a really good flesh-creeper, but instead it merely produces a rather average film with emphasis on plot...
...Winkle Goes to War (Columbia) is a sentimental tale of a meek, 44-year-old, henpecked, workaday bank clerk suddenly caught up by the seat of his well-shined pants and plunged into the workaday reality of modern...
...Live in Alaska is Connie's lively and well-told tale of their honeymoon...