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Terrible andW onder fulT HAVE just seen a very terrible and a very wonderful film. It is horrible beyond compare and it is £ v also noble and passionate and magnificent fin proportions that are unknown on themmCASSANDRA SAYS:Those who believe fin the correctiveprocesses of the execution shed andthe propriety of the fallows shouldsee this splendid and savage film. ”screen these days.The name of the pic*ture is “ARE WE ALL MURDERERS ?and a worse and more clumsyand brutish title, crudelyand stupidly translated from the French, never labelled the beginning of a reel of film. Somebody should change thischeap-jack tag immedi*ately.The film In tlic case against capital hideous scene many times before know punishment. that the victims may yell and screamIt Is almost unbearable In Its force •■»«» snuggle as they arc u*eii off to and Its wilt;vlom their (loom, so they take oil their bootsThe kene is Vlro prison of La Sante in ami approach in tliclr stockinged feet.Paris anlt;i the condemned cell which. They creep up to tlie cell iloor. quietlycontrary to British practice, contains put their boots on again, hold up the more than one murderer at a time, is procession until they arc ready and the dreadful focus of our attention, then with fhstsUy agility open the doorFour of the prisoners have killed their and burxt in upon the sleeping men. At fellow creatures and only the fifth may this fearful awakening none of the be innocent, so the question of guilt is oecupauts knows who is fo he draggednot really allowed to arise. to the beheading. The guards seize theIt is wnat happens afterwards on Uio victim with accomplished and practicedroad to the guillotine which is so force, dress him with breathless speedmajestically appalling. and drag lijut to the priest who is wait*One murderer is a dead end kid—an ing in his little annexe with crucifix adolescent brought up in the hungry, and candles next to the pit where thesqualid clays ot the Nazi Occupation of guillotine Is Installed, what happens France. He Joins the Resistance Move- next ax the terrified wretch is given mont, Zcimiv. to fight and to kill and to the fii»*l compulsory convo/nfloti i« asbecome a drunkard. In the hours of nearly unbearable as anything 1 havethe Liberation of Paris he runs amok ever soon In u theatre.with a tommy gun. a. ± 4.He has been trained to become an tin* „ . . , 7. .u^estionlng executioner in the name ot doubt things are more deu* France, and with his brave and brutish cntoly ordered In this country but men mind He curries out his orders. Ho /even murderers) do not co easily to kills the police who come to look for lt;-ler death and part of this a rim end him and he Is soon shackled with other vmiy aw rut performance must be en-murdcrers awaiting Uic guillotine. acted twenty or thirty times n year inTheir thoughts and their suffering ^us s.nno an(l decent and tcmdly coun-while awaiting death are the heart'of or 0UI?* . . ,. » «.i.this savage and splendid film. ^ cannot urge VOW w go aha SC6 unS. . tremendous film.▼ ▼ ♦ There Is not o single moment’s foyThere are scenes which, for terror or relief In it. But lor those who be-and horror, have never been surpassed lievc in the corrective processes of the in the history of motion pictures. execution shed and the propriety at theThe day and the hour of execution callows, this is a chftllcnee from whichare not revealed to the prisoners. The Wlc.v should not aimuk.guillotine arrives secretly in a lorry. I am told that the Lord (ililrf JusticeThe Governor of the prison, the police, may see this film. I hope he docs, liethe lawyers and all the dreadful retinue may not change his mind hut at least of official# gather at the appointed lie will have underdone the evperleoee hOliV at the end Of the central corridor of seeing the arguments against capl-tliafc leads Do the condemned cell. lal puiihlnncnt ill their most compel-The warders, burly, brutal and yet ling, most compassionate and mostkindly men, who have enacted this poetic form.
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