Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writer-Director Delmer Daves, who pleaded the cause of the American Apache in Broken Arrow, treats the Polynesians with the same respect. He rigs the story with their courtship and marriage customs, their rituals, superstitions, taboos. A preface labels these details as authentic, and most of them look it. The picture's anthropological approach is thus novel and sophisticated. Unfortunately, the dramatic uses to which this research has been put frequently seem as conventional and naive as the old Dorothy Lamour adventures on enchanted Pacific isles. What saps the movie's authenticity even more, and drains...
...hair tonic. Despite many days in the wilds, his pate is slick and well parted, his shirt perfectly tailored and his trousers finely creased. The ultimate example of Vido's misdirection is the marriage scene, in which the Justice of the Peace is equipped with a neon heart and arrow sign, twittering birds, and a record of Massenet's sickly-sweet "Meditation" from "Thais...
...Taft and Hoover logic. "It is hard to understand how anyone can contend that the development of a defensive holding force in Europe . . . could look like aggression to such realistic men as the rulers of the Kremlin," said Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "We have . . . to get the arrow point from West to East, not from East to West...
...Variety's list of 1950's biggest box-office grossers. The public's favorites, in order of popularity: Samson and Delilah, Battleground, King Solomon's Mines, Cheaper by the Dozen, Annie Get Your Gun, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, Sands of I wo Jima, Broken Arrow, Twelve O'Clock High...
...there is any one story of a U.S. fighting-man that can sum up the best in all the stories, it is that of Marine SERGEANT ROBERT WARD, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian who grew up in Los Angeles. He got to be a wonderful marksman with a bow & arrow. When he got hungry he would go out into the country and kill himself a rabbit. Ward's two older brothers were killed in action in World War II. Robert served in the Navy, later joined the marines. After he went into action in Korea last summer, his mother...