Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the plan backfires, Marilyn and her lover (Richard Allan) wind up dead at the hands of the husband, who takes his punishment by going over the falls in a drifting boat...
...buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow a loaf and pay later). A Briton may buy toothpaste but not a toothbrush, may have his shoes repaired but may not buy shoelaces. He is not supposed to ride in a boat (but excursion boats do a rollicking business at every seaside resort). He is not supposed to travel more than five miles away from home, nor go outside his own parish to watch a football game or cricket match...
...tanned after her "tough crossing," Ann alighted on the jetty from a native boat and announced: "I feel fine. I'm thrilled about landing. I have lost all sense of tiredness...
...with only an old Oscar to keep her company, she tries unsuccessfully to make a movie comeback. The fadeout finds her happy in the realization that, although she is through as an actress, she has a great career ahead of her as a woman with an honest, simple boat mechanic (Sterling Hayden) who has loved her all along. Joyously, at the fadeout, she speeds to her man in her Cadillac...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal-International). As he cruises along the Mississippi on a pre-Civil War gambling boat, Tyrone Power, a dashing but honest adventurer, has all sorts of remarkable experiences. He encounters a ravishing redhead (Piper Laurie), whom he affectionately calls "pepper pot," but she declines to have anything to do with him because her weakling brother (John Baer) lost an old family heirloom to him during a game of chance. Just to complicate matters more, Piper's brother is hopelessly smitten with brunette Julia Adams, who, in turn, is infatuated with Power...