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Good shot: to frighten some unruly concentration campers laboring in a field, the Nazi guard takes a pot shot at a nearby scarecrow; as he turns away, blood trickles down the scarecrow's hand...
While Winston Churchill and the rest of the War Cabinet remained silent, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful newspapers began taking pot shots at Sir Stafford. Wrote the Evening Standard's brilliant, liberal editor Frank Owen: "Cripps had better get off that 'it-all-depends-on-you' theme. . . . We have had enough appeals to self-sacrifice. What the nation needs is not appeals but orders...
Director Edward H. Griffith was apparently so preoccupied with nature that he let his story go to pot. Paramount had given him plenty (Madeleine Carroll & Stirling Hayden) to work with. Beauteous Miss Carroll, once picked by enthusiastic collegians (Columbia) as the most desirable partner for a desert island, is admirably equipped for her tantalizing role. Ex-Seaman Hayden, blond and Apolloesque, is unable to make much...
...They asked him: "Can we carry three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live on that island?" he asked. "Yes," said the Indian. "And are you a - damned -of a -?" asked the enraged mateo "Yes," said the Indian...
...French title, Cette Grande Lueur a L'Est (which the translator insipidly renders into Promise of Dawn). The young politician Jerphanion compares the magnetism of the Soviets with that of Verdun six years before: "There is something in it of that same sense of a distant melting pot, of a light shining through the darkness-a great blaze of light. ... It may be the dawn; it may be a conflagration. But whether we believe it to be one or the other, we are all agog to get there...