Word: burrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow is Ground Hog Day. Fearful of its shadow, the CRIMSON will hide in its burrow under the ramshackle press and refuse to emerge until Monday morning. Then, with a new mask, it will fearlessly commence the new term. Drive carefully...
Against the sordid backgrounds of an anonymous big U.S. city, the film deftly introduces its main characters one by one, starts to develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
...flash decision. Already the author of a lively biography of William Tecumseh Sherman (1932), Lewis had been collecting research on Grant for a dozen years. At Libertyville, freed from the grind of daily journalism, 54-year-old Lloyd Lewis began to burrow into his mound of notes...