Word: toreson
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Double Life in 1934), the story tells about the transformation of the villagers after the arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded by Nazi beatings and killings, finally strike back under Leader Eric Toreson (Paul Muni), who says: "We must learn to be gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, sandbag, dynamite, noose, club and poison...
...When Toreson, having killed the Nazi commander, escapes to England to lead back a Commando expedition, the mood of the picture changes: Picture No. 2 is not a story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...
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