Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life story which in the Negro slums of Chester, Pa.: "I never was a child. . . I was born out of wedlock. . . By the time I was seven, I knew all there was to know about sex and could outcurse any steveore. . .I knew that I was a bastard and what that meant. I've never in my whole life minded being a bastard. I've always found it can work both ways. If I wanted pity, I got it because I was illegitimate. And when I didn't want it and was mean and nasty, I always...
Waltari's adventurer, Michael Bast, the bastard of a Finnish strumpet, has been brought up by a middle-aged witch who lies in bed at night and sighs with desire for the local hangman. In this school of adversity Michael learns little of life, grows up to be a sort of cross between Candide and Lanny Budd. He is the kind of young man who gets seduced time & again without quite realizing what is going on, who gives his money to rascals for safekeeping, who signs a paper which helps to prove his wife a witch because a nice...
Instead, The Black Rose devotes much of its footage to an unlikely romance between Power, as the self-exiled bastard son of a Norman earl, and a prattling slave girl-played by plump-cheeked young (20) French Starlet Cecile Aubry as if she were a fugitive from Little Women. Power's odyssey through Asia with a stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that...
Said Lou: "No, I'll never make it. I'm going back and get that bastard...
...prisoner in the Tower of London, publicly confessing that he is a mere impostor and not the Duke of York at all. Shrewd Henry VII suspects a deeper, secret truth: that Pierre is really a bastard son of the Duchess of Burgundy and the Bishop of Cambrai. Thus, as the proud, yellow-haired pretender is led to the gallows and his bride languishes an unwilling attendant at Henry's court, it may be that Pierre has the Plantagenet blood in him after all. But everybody is too exhausted to care much...