Word: terrorisms
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...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...
When at last Aunt Martha (Aline MacMahon) fixes everything up by torturing a key nerve of Evelyn's psychosis-a terror of birds-and driving her stark mad, the effect is heavily overmelodramatic. Up to then, Guest in the House is a sharp and scary if never definitive study of the tyranny of weakness, and of the sinister conflicts and confusions which it can inspire among the relatively strong...
...Germans had gone. But there was still terror in Sofia-this time in the name of justice. Nearly 400 former members of four successive Bulgarian governments were being tried before two "People's Courts...
...Reign of Terror. These democrats were a small minority in the mass of pro-fascists, but later, from Istanbul, Timesman Levy cabled more serious charges: the average Bulgar "hoped that as soon as the dictatorial fascist regime in Bulgaria was overthrown, the Allies would assist his country to establish a true liberal and democratic government. But instead, he feels, Bulgaria today, four months after liberation from the Nazi yoke, is subjected to a Bulgarian dictatorial regime as unbearable and distasteful to the vast majority of Bulgars as was the former Nazi-inspired fascist government...
...virtual reign of terror prevails in Bulgaria, in which ordinary civil rights are almost nonexistent. Such elementary democratic principles as free speech and free press criticism are taboo. The writer, having just returned from a six-weeks' stay in Bulgaria, is convinced that the vast majority of the people in that country are bitterly disillusioned. They ardently are hoping for early Allied action to establish a democratic regime...