Word: instinctiveness
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...Seventh Cross (M.G.M.). When anti-Fascist George Heisler (Spencer Tracy) escapes from Westhofen Concentration Camp, he has faith in nobody and in nothing. Only the most rudimentary instinct for self-preservation keeps him moving, as, sleepless and starved, his hand torn and infected, he creeps from culvert to tool shed to woodpile and at length to Mainz, his native city. One by one his comrades in escape are captured, their dying bodies taken back to hang on six crosses in the courtyard of the camp. The seventh cross waits for Heisler, and waits in vain. And little by little...
Excitement was high as the gun sounded for the sweepstakes. Little Joe, with ebony-skinned Flash Gordon up, took a clumping lead at a dizzy 15 m.p.h. He had the championship almost won when instinct told him to make a dash for the feed box. This enabled rawboned Pippin, Jockey Cal (for Carroll County) up, to claim title as the fastest mule in the Delta country...
...panic of fear and repression that followed the attempted assassination, Adolf Hitler turned, as though by blind instinct, to his old party comrades, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, men as tightly and irrevocably bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian...
...strong wave had washed up to the shore, and the boy floated out with it. At first, he lay on the water, face down, without moving. Then, apparently, a last, desperate instinct to live gripped him and he flailed his arms, thrashing the foam. It was too late. Just as suddenly, it was all over: the air-filled seat of his knee-length black trousers bobbed on the water for ten minutes. Then he disappeared...
...parachuted behind the German lines to record the lives and activities of Russian guerrillas, credited with destroying more than a half-million German soldiers. The film is fragmentary, a merely average Russian documentary (aside from its subject). But it resembles They Met in Moscow in so far as the instinct for poetic realism-the dead center of most good cinema-is almost a national Russian characteristic...