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Word: zobahe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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Suez (Twentieth Century-Fox) adds to the list of such notable cinema disasters as the earthquake of San Francisco and the fire of In Old Chicago the spectacle of a howling zobah-hah in the Arabian desert. As cinematically reproduced, a zobah-hah is a combination of cyclone and dust storm, accompanied by squeals, floods, twilight and the expenditure of $250,000. In itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Director Miles Mander, drafted for the role of Disraeli, the ablest member is Producer Zanuck's latest Continental star. Less mannered than unfortunate little Simone Simon, Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) chatters intelligibly, looks pretty in gamine or Empire costume and chokes to death affectingly during the zobah-hah. Most impressive shot: cave-in of a canal-side cliff dynamited by Turkish guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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