Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws. Generally tame and frequently tedious, Minnie owed its gayest moments to the bouncy charm of Actress Hull (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey...
...Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Universal), from the British thriller of the same name,* is told in a despairing cinematic monotone almost as dismal as its title. A beached merchant sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall...
Since Lancaster's addiction to violence is clearly leading him to the gallows, the suspense in Kiss the Blood is not very keen. These characters are plainly headed for a bad end, and the only question is: How bad? Who, eventually, will get the most blood on whose hands...
...portable blood mobile unit will take over the main floor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon in the first day of donation proceedings. "Last minute volunteers may still register at PBH, provided they are over 21," announced Robert P. Hyde '51, drive co-chairman...
...beds have been set up in the PBH parlor, and office desks will be revamped to accommodate blood typing equipment. Hyde added that a doctor and a staff of Red Cross nurses will attend donors at all times...