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...about the war in China, Ashihei Hino says in describing a defeat: "I actually put my revolver to my head. I thought I would cry out: 'May Great Imperial Japan live forever!' in so loud a voice that the enemy would hear me, and then press the trigger. But the feel of the cold steel made me shudder, and I hastily replaced the weapon in my holster. I wanted to live on as long as I could. Thoughts of home brought tears to my eyes, and I shut them and prayed...
...film follows the eerie adventures of a young U.S. engineer (Joseph Gotten) when he is stalked by a group of Nazi trigger men in Turkey. The Nazis want to eliminate Gotten, who is a technical adviser to the Turkish Navy. To get him out of harm's way Turkey's secret service chief (Orson Welles) puts Gotten on a ship. His journey is made hideous by the fact that the Nazis get aboard the same ship...
Patriot De la Chapelle knew when he pulled the trigger that he would pay with his life. Under a rigorous colonial third degree he would say only: "No accomplices were needed to do justice." Before the firing squad he did not flinch...
Tableau. In Hillsdale, Ill., harried Farmer Arthur Ferkel stood with the muzzle of a gun under his neck, his toe on the trigger, threatened to press while a sheriff and his deputy tried to argue him out of it. He held the pose for seven hours before they won the argument...
Troop Trouper. Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope...