Word: train
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...steady sales for its luggage. The company requires retailers to sell Samsonite at list prices, but gives them a lucrative 40% to 45% markup. Samsonite salesmen tell dealers what luggage to buy and how to display and sell it, compensate them if the recommendations prove wrong, help them to train clerks...
...pushes around. After a sluggish beginning, Express starts to swing, and Frank swings with it, when the 400 Anglo-American prisoners are caught between retreating Germans and advance units of the U.S. infantry. After a day of freedom, the men are recaptured by Germans and packed into a freight train bound for the fatherland. They manage to subdue their Nazi guards (negligible opposition), don Nazi uniforms (good fit), and bluff or blast their way through Florence, Verona, Milan, and a burning fuel depot into Switzerland. A train pursued by troops and planes across enemy terrain can be counted...
Anyway, Green Berets should be good for recruiting. Moore's Special Forces men seem to spend little time on the humdrum public health and education programs and antiguerrilla training that are among the SF's major responsibilities. Instead, they recruit pretty girls to lure Viet Cong officers to their bedrooms-to be captured, naked and panting, by the SF. They hire Cambodian bandits to ambush Viet Cong units in Cambodia, train Meo tribesmen to fight against the Communist Pathet Lao in neutral Laos...
...major casualty is Sordi, whose test flight propels him into their line of fire. Later, when Frobe attempts the channel, flying quite literally by the book, he somehow finds himself suspended at low altitude, treading water. This feat is matched by Terry-Thomas maladroit landing atop an express train bound for Paris-with a tunnel dead ahead...
...idea, carefully contrived to spur concern for the right people. Driving home from work one night, a sober young research analyst (Jeff Hunter) comes upon a locked limousine stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...