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In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

The Third Man
1949
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph ( Read more... )

"I was sorry about the girl, but found some relief in the reflection that she had presumably during the weekend already undergone a fate worse than death." ~Mazzini, on killing his cousin's mistress along with his cousin.

Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Director: Robert Hamer (Ealing Studios)
Starring: Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood ( Read more... )