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Word: bigshot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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...ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy, conniving father, a onetime impresario of trained seals, who launches his son's ring career in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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