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Freedom Fighters. Now, as they began to realize what had happened and what they had done, the faces of the rebels were lit with a kind of ecstasy. There were vigorous blond students and tough-looking workers among them, but many seemed pitifully young. A correspondent noted a boy who could not have been more than ten years old holding himself at the ready with a rifle as tall as himself. Beside him was a 15-year-old girl with a submachine gun and a forage cap on her head. Grey with the fatigue of four days' ceaseless fighting...
Youth Party, the Revolutionary Defense Committee. Already there was a "revolutionary personality" in the shape of tall, blond Major General Pal Maleter, an ex-Horthy-regime soldier who had deserted to the Russians and been parachuted back to Hungary during World War II. Like tens of thousands of other Hungarian soldiers (some said just about the entire Hungarian army of 150,000), he had thrown his lot with the rebels. He made a hero of himself by leading the stubborn defense of the Maria Theresia barracks...
...stands, however, he has a long string of improbabilities laced with bad dialogue and characterization, particularly in supporting roles. What he has is a typically exciting spy-war-fare film with a couple of good performances. Oskar Werner, a blond and proud Nordic youth, comes off very well indeed because he has little to say, and no script-writer to louse up his sincerity. Everyone else--particularly Gary Merrill and Richard Basehart--acts in the best tradition of a class B film unit on location in Europe for the first time. This means lots of gutsy tough guys swimming...
...heavy-set man (5 ft. 9 in.. 205 Ibs.) with a powerful chest and wide shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books...
...said, then twisted the script with her fingers. "Well no, I guess I don't like her. She's blond and beautiful and, I suppose, I'm jealous...