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...leaders were now in Ciudad Trujillo to see how the Dictator proposed to pay off. The other was strictly home town hocuspocus. Trujillo had created it on paper and manned it with his stooges while he waited for the real Communists to show up. Anyway, he would keep the bogus party alive, just in case some of the real actors should prove unfit for their roles in the Dominican puppet theaters...
...Soviet Embassy at Ottawa. Why he tattled, the Government did not say. But he named names, produced documents, and pointed to Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's military attaché, as the spy ring's head. He said that Zabotin, in the best spy manner, used a bogus name: "Grant...
After the school came the "cover-story," the bogus life history that Millar must memorize to go with his false identification papers. He was to be an insurance publicity agent. Then he passed through "the phony-Continental-clothes-and-accessories department" which issued everything from "summer underwear to a 'housewife.' " Millar dumped his disguises somewhere in the "aquarium" as quickly as possible; they scared...
...mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...
Actors, technicians and equipment were toted hither & yon to get such actual backgrounds as the California Institute of Technology and the radio shack used by the Bureau to relay bogus information abroad. By shooting only 35 feet of film (less than half a minute) in the studio, able Director Henry Hathaway set some sort of record...