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Word: toren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen who watched Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart win World War II take a brass-knuckle beating in Sword's ostensibly fair-to-everybody script. When the Voice of Israel (Marta Toren) is captured, a Tommy bucks her up by remarking, "I say, what rotten luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome, fearless U.S. intelligence officer (Dick Powell) whose spy contact in Saïgon is a sultry nightclub singer (Marta Toren). The comic strips could take it from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides his time; of a native girl (Yvonne de Carlo), weighed down with costume jewelry, who loves Pépé; and of the French tourist Gaby (Marta Toren), atwitter with diamonds, through love of whom Pépé is lured to disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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