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...High Treason (J. Arthur Rank; Pacemaker) wrings a good deal of bang-up drama from a spy plot in which enemy agents conspire to blow up England's strategic power plants. The picture is a solo effort of Britain's talented Director Roy Boulting, who, with his twin brother John, made the taut 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon, about a demented atom scientist's attempt to destroy London...
Though played on a larger stage, High Treason is not quite so dynamic as Seven Days to Noon. The screenplay sometimes bogs down in low melodrama, and the pace lags now & then for wordy political digressions. But in Boulting's camera-wise direction the picture mostly crackles with pseudo-documentary excitement. The spectacular climax, as the saboteurs try to take over massive Battersea power station, was filmed at the actual locale among a futuristic welter of catwalks, dynamos and generating equipment. And Director Boulting gives the fanciful plot a realistic look with the odd British types who get tangled...
...August, got bawled out by President Truman* and vanished three months later, was reported back in Prague and in jail. Comrade Prochazka, loyal party member since 1923, seemed to be a victim of guilt by association: his brother, Jaroslav, former chief of the Czech general staff, is suspected of treason...
After the war, high-placed friends of the Communist assassins tried to quash the matter. But 52 suspects were brought to the bar, charged with treason and murder. One trial misfired in Brescia and another got under way in Lucca. For 193 days, 300 persons (accused and witnesses) testified. An imposing battery of defense lawyers-provided by the Communist Central Committee-did not deny the killings, but argued that the Osoppos were Fascists interfering with the liberation...
Last week 41 of the accused, including the ringleaders, were found guilty (of murder, not treason) and sentenced to a total of 777 years. One Communist ringleader, who calls himself Franco, thrust his arm through the bars of his cage and shouted: "We are stronger than you! Long live the Italian resistance...