Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the blood and-thunder afficionados will be disappointed by the obvious fakery which transpires in the action scenes, of which there are all too few in the first place. You conclude, then, that No Sun is not worth 120 minutes of your valuable time? Well, you're wrong again. What saves No Sun in Venice is that it's cool, and for this reason alone you should see it (actually, I must admit that Mlle. Arnoul is quite fascinating, and this probably constitutes another reason...
...months ago, in his first recognition that Communist agitation threatened him, Nasser had jailed 100-odd Syrian Communists, and received a warning blast from Nikita Khrushchev himself that it was "wrong" and "naive" to "accuse Communists of helping to weaken and divide" the Arab nationalist movement...
...simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
Obviously this sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been...
...presidents of his subsidiaries. They also answer their own phones and make their own business calls. Walter Koch, president of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., sometimes gets up at night to answer his telephone, sometimes finds on the line a drunk who berates him for some imagined wrong. He has heard more than one turn and shout to his fellow tipplers: "Listen to me give hell to the telephone company president!" Says Koch philosophically: "It does them good to let off steam...