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...main prewar product. After liberation, Italy's democratic government resumed the subsidies. But Italy's able young film boss, Under Secretary of State Giulio Andreotti, 33, onetime journalist and underground fighter, wisely kept hands off the product. Result: such imaginative directors as Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica had free play...
When detectives asked Wright why he had gone back to crime, he shrugged and said: "You fellows know the questions, so you ought to know the answers." The truth was that neither the detectives nor the neurosurgeons were any nearer to knowing what makes an incurable thief, let alone how to cure...
...Haystack. In Columbus, Ohio, when the state penitentiary's commissary was looted of 50 cartons of cigarettes and assorted boxes of candy, Warden Ralph W. Alvis announced sternly: "There's a thief in here somewhere...
...made Steed accompany him to Southern France, where hotel employees lined up to honor the visiting millionaire, only to be driven away by his insults. After Steed warned the editors to ignore any unusual messages, Northcliffe wrote a cable to one top staffer: YOU ARE A RASCAL AND A THIEF. I WILL HAVE THE LAW ON YOU. IF YOU DON'T LEAVE THE OFFICE IMMEDIATELY I WILL COME WITH THE POLICE AND TURN...
First of all the picture's keynote is not mere eloquent praise of a colorful fraternity in white sheets, but rather a virulent form of White Racism, of which the Klan is a symbol. The Negro is pictured throughout as a thief and a low-life, whose only intent as a Freedman is rapine of his former masters and the physical possession of Caucasion virgins. If such a theme could cause riots fifty years after Reconstruction, there is no reason why it cannot, and does not, cause violent emotions today. At least the Solid South does not look upon Griffith...