Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have been deleted in Boston and elsewhere). But where "Home of the Brave" and other movies dealt with discrimination and persecution, and found them to have personal solutions, "No Way Out" deals with group conflict and war. For members of opposing armies--Niggertown and the white slum of Beaver Canal--there are no individual solutions...
Director Joseph Mankiewicz has condensed the action to a series of intense, violent impression. Some are almost surrcalistic, such as a scene in a Beaver Canal junkyard, where white hoodlums test their weapons before a battle. Personalities and personal situations are only suggested; characters become casts of mass emotions...
Richard Widmark is frightening as Ray Biddle, a hood who conjures up a race riot. As an individual or a type, Biddle would seem psychopathic; instead, his role in the film is a symbolic, gathering behind one grinning mask all the virulence of Beaver Canal. In the only role of individuality, Linda Darnell is a slattern trying to escape from her slum background, who betrays and then rescues the Negro doctor (Stephen Poitier) accused of murdering Biddle's brother...
...Sometimes I miss breakfast here entirely because it doesn't open until 7:30 ... so I stroll up to the Square for something to eat ... have to eat something in your alimentary canal to start off the day, y' know, even if it's only a biscuit...
Because they must live and work in the debilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone have long enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest...