Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene III: the Sherman. The Wallace camp set to work in earnest. Their pre-convention count of solid, first-ballot votes had stood at 200. By Wednesday morning it rocketed to 350. All day long delegates streamed in & out of P.A.C.'s Sherman Hotel headquarters...
P.A.C.'s first-ballot count for Wallace rose to 400, then...
...Russian count, Edward Everett Horton, and a no-less-dissolute Russian judge, George Sanders. Their breathing becomes heavy. They are lost...
...ruthless, passionate young woman, out strictly for the highest bidder, she keeps them on her leash even after she marries doting, pathetic Peasant Hugo Haas. First she destroys Judge Sanders' attempt to settle down with a wife (sugary, upper-class Anna Lee). Then she parades before the count in his dead wife's wedding dress. At length, on a shooting party (the film is made from Chekhov's story The Shooting Party), she is mysteriously knifed to death. Her husband takes the rap. The Bolshevik revolution overtakes her guilty lover before justice does...
...before the real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes...