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...temporal character he fought in both World Wars. In June 1940 he was captured by the Germans at Cherbourg. Three days later he jumped out of his prison train and made his way, disguised as a Norman peasant, to the Channel coast and eventually to London. He led the unfortunate assault on Dakar, where he took some lead in his thigh. After he recovered from his wound in French Equatorial Africa, where he organized Free French merchant shipping, he went to Canada to lecture, back to London to broadcast, and then, on the destroyer Le Triomphant, out to romantic Oceania...
...newsmen and movie magazine interviewers in England and France, pretty, pout-mouthed Starlet Corinne Luchaire had one sure-fire line. When the inevitable question about her love life came, 20-year-old Corinne (whose greatest role was that of a reformatory waif in Prison Without Bars) inevitably sighed prettily: "I'm much too young for romance...
Sullivan eventually tastes life. Home again from a social worker's tour of hobo jungles with The Girl, he is unexpectedly robbed, stuffed into a freight car headed south, railroaded into a prison chain gang, and officially pronounced dead. In prison he learns the value of making people laugh, returns to Hollywood a sadder & wiser director (especially after a punishing sojourn in the prison sweatbox...
...hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time just what is going on. Then comes more comedy, until again there is a sudden change of scene and mood, and the action is in a chain-gang prison camp, thoroughly brutal and realistic, without the slightest trace of comedy. Then back to the light note, a note on which the film ends. There are also inserted in the picture, with no bearing on the plot, a Negro revival meeting and a melodramatic struggle on top of a speding...
...weeks that Jane Anderson spent in a Madrid prison during the Civil War apparently changed her whole life. Before then she was an able journalist, an intimate of Historian Herbert George Wells and Novelist Rebecca West. She may or may not have been a Franco agent, as charged when she was imprisoned, but she most certainly was one when she left. As soon as the U.S. Government procured her release, she began stumping the U.S. for the Fascists. Her penny-dreadful harangues were illustrated with lurid firsthand accounts of Communist "atrocities" and "tortures" in Spain. How she got to Germany...