Word: bimba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thug who fears nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living. Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) is a graduate of a Nazi concentration camp, a German as hard as such an education can make...
...Bimba ("Get away? Just to change the mosquitoes? No, thanks") are hooked on the same cruel question mark: How to get back to civilization? Suddenly they get a vein-freezing answer. An oil well catches fire. Only an explosion can put it out. The nearest nitroglycerin sits in a shed 300 miles from the blaze-in the very town where the men happen to be. The oil company, a U.S. outfit, offers $2,000 apiece for four good drivers with the guts to truck the soup, over roads that hardly deserve the name, to the scene of the fire...
...dozen desperate men step up. Mario, Luigi, Bimba and another are chosen; Jo is the fifth man, but one murder is all it takes to make him the fourth. Off they go in two trucks, two men to a truck. From that moment forward, the moviegoer is in physical danger from this picture, and should be warned of the fact. Whatever else may be said of it, Wages of Fear is one of the great shockers of all time. The suspense it generates is close to prostrating. Clouzot is not interested in tingling the customer's spine, but rather...
Love That Oil. What with customs duties, high profits and low farm output, Caracas prices† average twice as high as Manhattan's, but oil keeps the money moving; the buying power of Customer Juan Bimba (Mr. Average Venezuelan) has risen 63% in eight years. The country is the U.S.'s fourth biggest cash customer (after Canada, Mexico and Cuba), taking everything from steel beams to baked beans...
...role of sportswoman, went mountain fishing, hooked a plump Kamloops trout and had a photograph to prove it, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel returned to Manhattan to find a goodly catch there, too: three new roles for the winter opera season, plus news that her first popular recording, Bella Bimba, was headed for big sales...