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This is the tale of the 12th group, who used their position to revolt against the Nazis and blow up the two primary gas chambers/furnaces.
Things start off with a cigarette revolt and don't get any better from there.
The script tries to explain how their revolt is justified, and that true violence is the only way to escape their problems.
Competently directed by Virgil Vogel, with a fanciful and intriguing script by Lazslo Gorog, handsome photography by Ellis Carter, admirably sincere acting from a solid cast (Agar is his usual reliably stalwart self while the lovely Cynthia Patrick makes for a charming heroine and Alan Napier has a grand time as an evil high priest), a steady, if less than stirring pace, nifty and impressive special effects (the matte paintings are beautiful), a properly eerie and claustrophobic atmosphere, funky monster make-up by Bud Westmore (the Mole People are truly gnarly-looking subhuman beasts), a rousing last reel revolt by the Mole People against their mean oppressors, and a surprisingly downbeat ending, this baby sizes up as a hugely enjoyable golden oldie fantasy horror picture.
Sacrifices, revolt and chaos ensue, with the Mole People actually the sympathetic characters, an unexpected ending, shadowy photography, and solid direction by Virgil Vogel, make this enjoyable.
Sadly, his last film, Cuban Rebel Girls, made during Fidel's revolt, is an abortion and a pathetic tribute to a man, a talented man, who trilled us all so many times in our youth with his panache, elan and verve.
This historical revolt: the focal point of director Steven Soderbergh's enduring, coarse and superbly crafted part one of two biopic.
I am giving the director the benefit of the doubt and assuming he was trying to make some sort of high-minded statement about sexuality, not just trying to revolt me.
What are they here for, just to present the woman as a relict from the 68-ers revolt (with a Christian Dior overcoat...)?
The Squid And The Whale will shock, offend, maybe even revolt at times, but its steady pace and realism will create quite a memorable experience for those who are burned on hundred million dollar blockbusters that attempt to make the unreal seem everyday, and usually fail.
I had the memory of a "Jacquou Le Croquant", hero of a TV mini-series of my childhood, who had lost his parents by the fault of an aristocrat and more generally because of the post-Napoleonean social classes system, and who came to a revenge by leading a revolt especially against that social system and against the man which incarnates the cause of the tragedy of his family.
Most of us know nothing about the Armenian Revolt, which is why it is so easy for the Armenian Diaspora to convince people that their ancestors were the victims of genocide.
Adel, a blonde girl of fair skin is given to the doctors as a gift to the Gods, but Elinu believes them to be mortals and wants to have the doctors sacrificed before their influence reaches the albino people and the Mole People revolt.
You can only keep pummeling a series so much, however, without revolt.
The move sparked a managerial revolt that threatened Venezuela's biggest source of income.
So far, most Arab monarchies have had enough legitimacy, money, and force to survive the waves of popular revolt that have brought down secular republican autocrats like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, but we are only two years into the revolutionary process.
But nobody knew with any precision just when open revolt against Burma’s military dictatorship would erupt.
Pulling away from dictators without trying to take credit for or hijack the revolt was exactly what was required.
One reason for Mashal’s change of heart can be found in the ongoing popular revolt in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad.
But now, at least in Britain, the political class is in revolt.
So when resettling comfortably in the Kremlin in 2012, Putin should take a moment to re-read Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, a novella about the bloody Cossack-led rebellion against Catherine the Great: “God save us from a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless.”
My own diagnosis is that the widely discussed rise of the UK Independence Party is more a revolt against mainstream British parties than against Europe, more a condemnation of politics as usual – in which the EU sometimes participates – than against the EU.
Belgian colonialists favored Tutsis, leading to Hutu rejection of them as alien interlopers;Sinhalese resentment of Tamil privileges in colonial-era Sri Lanka prompted the discriminatory policies after Independence that fueled the Tamil revolt.
But, of course, popular anger is also what forced the German government to impose overly strict terms on Greece in 2015, thus inflaming a populist revolt in that country, too.
Rejecting a deal with Israel in 2000, Fatah instead launched a violent revolt that has lasted ever since then, destroying the infrastructure built up in the Palestinian territories during the previous decade.
As for Syria, the revolt against one of the most secular autocracies in the Arab world has degenerated into a fight to the death between Sunnis and Shia that is spilling over to other countries in the region.
Within weeks, the popular revolt triggered by Bouazizi’s act had spread far beyond Tunisia, engulfing much of the Arab world.
And, when Russia suppressed two “color” revolutions – the Polish revolt of 1830-1831 and the Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849 – it became even deeper.
From the eighteenth century on – including Charles de Gaulle’s epic role in World War II, decolonization in Africa, and the May 1968 student revolt – France has been a frequent bellwether of deep societal changes across Europe.
The attempt to impose a benevolent creditors’ dictatorship is now being met by a debtors’ revolt.
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