Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace has always been a thing of regional tension, of compromise, and of constant insecurity," the speaker declared. "The world has never been unified...
Much of the movie is as brutally effective as a series of kicks in the solar plexus. Especially memorable: its accurately ugly talk, characterization and atmosphere, strung up to high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame...
...this time. Said a State Department official: "Russia is just as worried." Washington's intelligence reported that the Communists had assembled an international brigade near the Greek border. The U.S. hoped that when Russia saw that its bluff had been called, the brigade would melt away. The tension would last until U.S. arms for the Greek Army began to arrive in quantity-in about 30 days...
...Electrocution. Doomed people kept for weeks in dirtiness were promised a shower bath. When they entered the cabin they stepped on a high-tension metal...
Since nobody except a poet (Richard Basehart) takes at all seriously Miss Leslie's efforts to stave off the inevitable, her second chance does her little good. Some of her struggling in the emotional meshes is fairly interesting, and a certain tension does develop as the clock crawls for the second time to midnight of Dec. 31; but the picture is garnished with so much ham and ineptitude that it hardly seems worth the bother...