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...Hitler Gang (Paramount) is a triumph of cinemakeup. With uncanny realism it recreates the physical appear ance of the Nazi bigwigs in a fascinating collection of talking waxworks. Paramount hunted high & low for Nazi doubles. The Hitler was easy. Cinemactor Robert Watson has already scared little children in that role in four pictures (The Devil with Hitler, Hitler, Dead or Alive, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Nazi Nuisance). He practiced his earnest performance so strenuously that he wore his larynx to a frazzle. One night the neigh bors, hearing his hysterical yawpings against Jews, came over...
Herriman believed that animals are superior to human beings. He would never ride a horse. He tried to be a vegetarian, had to give it up when he became too weak. To the end of his life nearly all his ration points for meat went to satisfy the sleek gang of stray dogs and cats he took care...
...moonlit street in the heel of Italy a British soldier uttered a cry of pain, fell with a stab wound in his back. Angry Tommies beat through the dark village, could not find the assailant. Next day a gang of Italian youths pummeled a tipsy British soldier. Again Tommies rushed to the rescue. Shots rang out, hit some bystanders, dispersed a defiant...
...Athanasios Klaras, known as Ares (Greek god of war), gives tenuous allegiance to the Leftist EAM, biggest of the Greek guerrilla factions. Before the war he did time in jail for forgery and worse. When the Germans came, he collected a gang of thugs, escaped to the hills, impartially harried Nazis and political opponents by slitting their ears and rubbing salt into the slits. A Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist...
...Chicago's newspapers almost ignored the war. They had more exciting news. Headlines blazoned accounts of kidnapping and murder. Accompanying stories hinted at the rise of a new gangland mob: the "wise boys" said that the "Syndicate," or the "Outfit"-presumably the remnants of the old Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name of another Capone flashed...