Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scripter-Brother Robert N. Lee claim they boned through 350 volumes of British history. The picture suggests that they might have achieved the same result with less labor by referring to Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England, since, as history, this period thriller is considerably less authentic than its elaborately spooky reproductions of London's Tower. But the battles of Tewkesbury and Bosworth with nickering horses and the knightly clang of iron against iron set a new high for realistic racket that should deafen the most demanding...
Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
Beasts of Berlin (Producers Pictures Corp.). In the windy March of 1918 Manhattan's flag-wrapped Broadway Theatre flaunted an announcement: "WARNING: Any person throwing mud at this poster will not be prosecuted." The poster advertised a new thriller: The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin. Inside the theatre, girl ushers, togged out as Belgian peasants, distributed programs which promised "an amazing expose of the intimate life of the Mad Dog of Europe." The picture did not quite live up to the promise. It described the hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft...
...Jones of the Globe: "Harvard by one or two touchdowns. Harlow has a superior all-round ball-club and more dangerous backs. It may be a thriller...
...single game. The most logical explanation for the meager 32,000 at the Bowl last Saturday is simply the one-sidedness of the predictions of the game. It is ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...