Word: jerichos
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...Open City" molds three-dimensional characterizations whose light, shadow, and substance help us penetrate into the emotions and consequent actions of man versus superman, "Jericho" sketches only a linear panorama of the French resistance movement that is further weakened by the incredibility of its story. The two films meet a similar problem: the presentation of the phase of the underground movement in Europe. But while the Italian masterpiece consciously sinks into the brine of brutality and resistance, the French offering floats at the surface, touching shores hardly long enough to establish any dramatic claims...
...moments devoted to each one, are standard types: the patriots are staunch, tight-lipped, and unmoved, the German commander a thicknecked, bullet-headed remnant of the days of Von Stroheim's Junkers. The photography is excellent, but in the precarious position of being either documentary or drama or both, "Jericho" achieves at best an uncertain effect...
...traveller's mind as he makes his way from the desert wastes of Egypt and southern Palestine, and finally catches a glimpse of the ordered green of a Jewish agricultural settlement. Contrast is your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back the desert; an Arab fellah hurrying his sheep to the side of the road...
...will take with him: He's Gone Away, an old North Carolina love song; Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, an Elizabethan ballad still sung in the Southern mountains; the square dancers' Old Joe Clark; the spiritual Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; the cowboys' Old Chisholm Trail...
...Jordan-bound water to thirsty lands in the famous Plain of Esdraelon, and along the Mediterranean coast. The rest will irrigate the narrow, hot Jordan valley. But the Jordan itself will not go wholly dry, as it did when Joshua commanded the Israelites in the attack on unfortunate Jericho...