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Then Spellbinder Sukarno warmed up. "Start a mental revolution," he cried. "Throw away all laziness, all egocentricity, all greed, all lawlessness, all degeneration, all luxury, all opportunism, all immorality. The year 1957 is our year of decision. Shall we survive or shall we perish? We have come to the point of no return. As from this day let us launch the New Life Movement. Let us not meet it with cynicism, derision and ridicule . . . because, in truth, the intention is good. It is a movement to forge the Indonesian into a new man-purehearted, steelwilled, with the spirit...
...play is a satire, partly poetic, about greed and worshippers of the Golden Calf. A group of men want to drill for oil right under Paris in order to wage a destructive war. The countess and her cohorts find a way of trying them in absentia by proxy, and she then "exterminates" them (how I will not reveal...
...discovery of gold-in the Klondike, in Australia, in California-usually disrupts whole territories, debauches the virgin countryside and turns the hearts of good men black with greed. Last week a primitive corner of West Africa's French Cameroons was enjoying a gold strike that seemed to be bringing nothing but happiness to everyone involved-everyone, that is, except the man who found the gold...
This movie might better have been titled "The Treasure of Sierra Mombasa" or "King Solomon's Mimes." With snarling distrust and open greed. Hero Wilde keeps a bloodshot eye on his brother's two partners, now his. because they are just as mean and avaricious as he is. In fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...
...theater (formerly a church); Sam hates Godbolt for no better reason than that he cheated him. The other war is fought by Daniel and his ally-a contemptuous cockney handyman-against Sam himself. Anything goes in those battles, from the hurling of dead dogs to the shrewd manipulation of greed to defeat greed...