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Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) is one of the least kinetic and one of the most absorbing of cinema's innumerable treatments of the World War. Concerned not with fighting but with respite from fighting, it investigates a group of French inmates of a German prison camp. The prisoners-principally an austere patrician, Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), his mechanic, Marechal (Jean Gabin), and a generous fellow, Rosenthal (Dalio), who shares the canned delicacies sent by his rich family-naturally try to escape. Director Renoir, however, builds his plot, not around the success or failure of this enterprise, but around...
...altered in appearance terribly. He is emaciated. His eyes are haggard. They will not let him have a razor so he has grown a tangled beard. He is obsessed with a terrible fear that he will lose his mind. He is convinced that he will never leave his prison alive...
...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...
...last fortnight, after 650 of the prison's 1,414 prisoners had yammered, clamored and "hunger-struck" against the prison food and discipline, six ringleaders were thrust into "The Klondike." Next day 13 more, and after that another six were thrust in, so that the men were jammed in two and three to a cell. Someone shut the windows. Someone turned off the water from the spigots. Someone turned on the steam heat...
...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison, tough Gangster Alvin Karpis, onetime Public Enemy No. 1,-* asked for and was given two books: Salt Water Fishing, An American Angler in Australia...