Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's really no plot, for this J. Arthur Rank film just follows the misadventures of one somewhat conscientious student during his four years. There are some remarkably funny and authentic medical situations, and a sort of grand climax riot with a rival medical school. Although undoubtedly a barrel of fun for the participants this scene, embarrassed me greatly and gave me a sudden unexpected feeling of sympathy for the residents of Cambridge, Mass...
...Barrel shaped "Sandy" Calder with his white hair set off against a bright red flannel shirt and blue jeans, grunted directions in a good humored way, as a crew of students festooned the large gallery in Robinson Hall with his unusual sculpture. When everything was finally in place, Calder thanked his helpers individually and then disappeared with friends, leaving a small group still gaping at the wonderland before their eyes...
...Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province, swung his saber with the toughest of them. Wounded at Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), where Voroshilov was in command, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and became a member of the Communist Party. He never regretted...
...years, the nemesis of government economy has been the Pork Barrel. With every congressional district wanting its dam or irrigation ditch and every pressure group demanding its subsidy, the national debt has risen to some $250 billion. Under the present law, the President has no means of checking Congressional demands. Even when legislators are not under political pressure, they are usually unable to make wise budget decisions because of the difficulty of estimating the relative importance of various appropriations. Each year a number of appropriations bills are passed, and the total expenditure is not entirely clear. Among the many proposals...
...John Silver is a pretty crude imitation, as economy cruises are apt to be, of the de luxe $1,650,000 made-in-England original, Walt Disney's Treasure Island (TIME, July 24, 1950). On deck once again is the cutthroat pirate crew, the boy in the apple barrel (Kit Taylor this time), the mutiny, the mad castaway, the attack on the fort-even the same rented parrot, or its Aunt Polly. Luckily, there is also the same actor to play Long John Silver: Robert Newton...