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...German released from a Nazi prison camp tells his friends what a fine time he had there-plenty to eat, games all day long and a wonderful library. "But how did you get your nose broken and your ear torn off?" neighbors...
...spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer, and with a sigh asked whether this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferne, the picture successfully translates and condenses the huge novel into a short movie...
...dawn that day in a misty Berlin prison courtyard two cringing figures in suits of coarse sacking were led out, their hands chained behind their backs. Headsman August Gröber, 67 and spry for his age, advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared...
...also tried vainly to save the Tsar. After his White leader, General Kornilov, was killed and the decimated army was being reorganized. Bulygin made his way to Moscow in disguise, to organize a rescue for the Tsar. He got to Ekaterinburg, but was recognized as an officer, put in prison and would probably have been shot if he had not escaped. When he rejoined the Whites he was assigned to assist the late N. A. Sokolov, the official investigator of the Tsar's death. The White armies got to Ekaterinburg only nine days after the executions, and two preliminary...
...field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...