Word: bitlis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chicago, when Joseph Callahan fell out of his chair, his false teeth flew through the air, landing first. When Joe hit the floor, his teeth bit him in the forehead...
...officer's voice crackled in the scout-car radios. The four-wheel drives bit into the sand, and the cars lunged side by side over the plain. Where the bondocks were low, the light-armored cars, carrying three-man crews and two machine guns, could do 10 m.p.h. Where the hummocks were four and five feet high, 4 m.p.h. was the top. The cars were slow, but the bondocks did not stop them...
...They Knew What They Wanted" is one of the most gripping films Hollywood has made recently. It handles old themes--love, jealousy, lust--in a straightforward, unaffected fashion that carries great conviction. Charles Laughton, as an Italian fruit-grower, and Carole Lombard, as a hash-house waitress, squeeze every bit of pathos and humor from their roles. William Gargan is a truly tragic figure as the villain of the piece, who ruins his own chances for happiness at the same time that he comes near to destroying the lives of those he loves most. Unlike the average Hollywood product, this...
...forget that he comes from the American theatre's royal family. If you can forget all that, and just take him for a drunken, lecherous, old man with a sense of humor and a flair of exhibitionism, you'll enjoy the picture. But actually, another aristocrat has bit the dust...
Second feature, British National Films' "Blackout," is an exciting, improbable yarn full of Nazi spics and modern Mata Haris. This bit of propaganda carries all the suspense of Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," but it loses a good bit of punch by splitting the male lead amongst Conrad Veidt, the Union Jack, and Denmark's national anthem...