Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upshot of this grim situation in the play was that Mio, learning the identity of the murderer through his conversation with Trock, was himself murdered by Trock's trigger men before he could take the truth outside the shadows of the bridge. The picture, inspired more, it appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have...
...House of Commons that he would have told the public of the war danger Britain faces except that he was afraid that would lose him the last General Election, the Daily Mail cried: "Surely those who have recently confessed that they dare not tell the people the truth will realize the gulf between their conduct and the King's methods in Wales...
...prosecution has said from the beginning," declared a Denhardt lawyer, "that General Denhardt shot Mrs. Taylor when she told him she could not go through with their marriage as planned. The truth of the matter is that Mrs. Taylor was begging the General to marry her. He will tell the truth about this when the day of his trial comes...
...believe that war is inevitable," affirmed Sir Thomas. "I am not going to admit the British Navy has met an opponent which cannot be mastered.... It is suggested that the growth of air power has destroyed our historic security as an island. That is only a fraction of the truth. . . . We have a long start over anyone who is ill-advised enough to meddle with our freedom...
...gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell the truth about his quarrel with the gangster lest his mother be disgraced. Fate, or rather the script, intervenes just in time, and Tom and Francis fall into each others arms...