Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After fighting in the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw, being captured by the Germans in the wake of the 1944 uprising, and being liberated by General Patton's U.S. Third Army, big, blond Witold von Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...
...hand to run the 35-mm. CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters' President Dave Beck...
...parched country of northern Mexico's Chihuahua, a prairie wasteland fit for nothing but coyotes, ocelots, wolves and white-faced cattle, thrives a large oasis of green fields, spotless barns and blue-trimmed, gabled cottages. This is the colony of a stolid blond race, strangely contrasting with its dark neighbors-the home of the Mexican Mennonites...
...Land (Jaguar; Warner). "Thuh East needs beef!" That's what the man says, but regrettably, in this as in most of his independent productions. Actor Alan Ladd is able to deliver almost nothing but corn. For a moment now and then the wide screen opens on the blond infinities of Kansas grassland, but then it quickly narrows focus to the usual picayune plot: hero in trouble, villain (Anthony Caruso) in black, redhead (Virginia Mayo) in stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors...