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France, 1944. Hysterically, a German soldier tries to break the American sergeant's stranglehold. But there is no escape; the grip grows tighter until the soldier chokes to death. The sergeant releases his victim -and his own breath returns in a series of orgasmic spasms...
...David Burnham, who cruised the streets in the early morning seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive all the way across his precinct to answer a burglary call...
...String. Director Theodore Mann manipulates his actors like a sergeant drilling raw recruits. Whenever the action flags, he stiffly strings the players before the footlights, as if for a military inspection. Even so, the players almost undo the damage. Sorrell Booke's three parts are written as caricatures of middle age, but at least he renders the caricatures with the bite of David Levine...
...German letters whose 82 novels and plays dealt mainly with the intrinsic evils of war and its impact on the human soul; after a long illness; in East Berlin. From his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Zweig fashioned his most famous novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, an evocative, existential account of a soldier executed as an example to the Kaiser's troops. Expelled as a Jew by Hitler in 1933, Zweig spent 15 years in Palestine, where he wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue and diplomacy enveloping the German General...
...these mind-busting advances were made in isolation in the sense that they do not belong on any of the albums. "A Day in the Life" was so out of place on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles felt compelled to close the album theme just before the song came...