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THE MALE ANIMAL (Elliott Nugent, 1942)

June 20, 2008 · by grunes | in Formal Capsule Film Comments | tagged Henry Fonda | Leave a comment

Bartolomeo Vanzetti, along with Ferdinando Nicola Sacco, was executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on August 23, 1927, for a 1920 armed robbery in which a clerk and a security guard were murdered. It is doubtful that either of the two Italian-born laborers—Vanzerri was a fishmonger; Sacco, a shoemaker—had anything to do with these crimes; […]

BHOPAL EXPRESS (Mahesh Mathai, 1999)

June 20, 2008 · by grunes | in Informal Capsule Film Comments | Leave a comment

A man frantically tries to stop a train before it enters Bhopal. The conductor does stop the train, causing the man, insane with joy, to start spastically dancing on the tracks. We return to this scene near the end of Mahesh Mathai’s riveting, heartrending Bhopal Express, where we learn the import of the young man’s […]

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