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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, Mollet might have sympathized with the words written by the left-wing editor Claude Bourdet in his weekly L'Observateur: "One hundred thousand young Frenchmen are threatened with being thrown into the 'dirty war' of Algeria, with losing the best years of their lives, perhaps with being wounded, indeed killed, for a cause few among them approve." But now, in a panicky gesture that reflects the government's skittishness, Editor Bourdet was unceremoniously arrested by Mollet's government, accused of spreading "demoralization...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...
...secret minutes from the Teheran conference and plans for the Normandy invasion are stuffed in the Embassy's flimsy safe, and Mason knows the combination. Frustrated by his menial life, he photographs the documents and sells the film to the incredulous Nazis. While he amasses roughly two hundred thousand pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman. She gets her just desserts when the money which Mason got from the Germans is found to be counterfeit. Despite...
CinemaScope camera through the world's gaudiest gambling hell, he undergoes seven acts of vaudeville, two complete ballets, about 15 casinos, several thousand slot machines and an oil gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...
...casino, holds it for good luck -and wins three times in a row. This, of course, is the start of a love affair as well as a bank account. However, the grimly spontaneous kissing sometimes makes way for some fairly fresh kidding (when the lovers hold hands, a thousand hens lay all at once, and oil explodes from a dry well) and for a few high-class variety numbers. Lena Home and Cara Williams provide the best of these, though Frankie Laine's performance is not without its morbid fascination, and Hermes Pan's ballet about Frankie...