Word: corsican
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...Corsican Brothers (Small; United Artists) are (both of them) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who has yet to make up his mind who he is: his father, or Ronald Colman. They are also the offspring of Alexandre Dumas. Their eventual defeat of Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), who slew their parents, is accomplished with heavyhanded, uninspired direction and all the corny hokum that accompanies the routine Hollywood romantic picture...
...realms of farce or horror, The Brothers' situation might have amounted to something. The Corsican brothers are born Siamese twins. After they have been secretly rescued from their parents' burning castle, a friendly 19th-Century medico (H. B. Warner) severs their bond of flesh, dispatches one (Lucien) to live with a family retainer among Corsican bandits, the other (Mario) to Paris in the care of a wealthy, childless couple...
Terrible-tempered Gregory Ratoff, according to Columnist John Chapman, was giving all of his directorial attention to making two great Danes hold still for a scene in The Corsican Brothers, now shooting. One of the beasts was fidgety, wouldn't behave. Raged the frustrated director: "Take that dog's name! I'll never give him another part...
Died. César Campinchi, 58, lean, volcanic Corsican, one of the great criminal lawyers of his time, Minister of the Marine in the last government of Republican France; after an operation; in Marseille. He unceasingly opposed the Munich policy, fled with Daladier and Mandel to North Africa when the Army collapsed last June, unlike them was never interned to be tried for treason...
Jean Chiappe was born a few blocks from the birthplace of Napoleon, and like the greater Corsican he hated the British. He was best known as Prefect of the Paris Police, a job he lost in the Stavisky scandal. In the years leading up to World War II he was an indefatigable behind-the-scenes worker against the British orientation of French policy and had been accused of plotting a Fascist coup. When the armistice came he naturally stood with Vichy, but until last week the Vichy rulers had found...