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...noon, a 30-man mob assembled in the reformatory yard. A stout rope was thrown over a low-hanging limb. James Scales, taut with fear, was dragged atop an empty oil drum. Suddenly Superintendent Neil, in the immemorial gesture of all Southern peace officers, shouted: "I don't want anything like that done here." Then he ducked. As the shotguns blasted, James Scales fell, his head and back studded with lead...
These events, climaxed by satisfactory violence, persuaded the publishers to describe Lie Down in Darkness as "a devastating picture of the 'society' which it mirrors." It is nothing of the sort. It is an orchidaceously morbid psychological thriller, smooth, fast-paced, taut with suspense...
Bergman, Boyer, and Cotten turn in superb performances. With their acting, and excellent directing, "Gaslight" archives a rare degree of taut suspense which more than makes up for the complexity of the plot...
...then German fighting power was far more seriously weakened than if all those officers had been lost in a single day of combat in the field. Germany's is a close-textured Army; a few threads plucked from it could destroy the fabric, especially when it is stretched taut over three fronts...
...last the General appeared, his tall figure towering above everyone, his face taut and set. The bishop and the subprefect greeted him. The townsfolk trailed him to the park. There, bareheaded under a Tricolor mounted with the Gaullist Cross of Lorraine, flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes, Charles de Gaulle said; "We will fight by the side of our Allies. . . . Our victory will be a victory of a free people. . . ." Then he sang La Marseillaise with his countrymen...