Word: bogarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphrey Bogart is currently chasing across the Metropolitan screen at a speed substantially better than that of sound; unfortunately the rest of the cast has trouble keeping up this strenuous pace. Hence "Chain Lightning" is only an average motion picture...
...Lightning (Warner) opens Hollywood's cycle on jet aviation with a great rush of supersonic hot air. Its jets fly much faster (1,400 m.p.h.), higher (90,000 feet) and longer (four hours plus) than any jet-propelled fighter yet announced by the U.S. Air Force. With Humphrey Bogart as a devil-may-care test pilot, its heroics are built to scale...
...picture would have it, Manufacturer Raymond Massey's experimental wonder, the JA-3, will soon be outmoded by a model with a detachable escape cockpit. Bogart falls in with Massey's greedy plans to publicize the JA3 into acceptance by the Air Force. Having risked his neck for money to fly the plane from Nome to Washington by way of the North Pole, a reformed Bogart risks it again for ideals. He tests the new model against orders and sets the Air Force straight...
Tough-Guy Bogart still conveys emotion by baring his teeth in a grimace that gentler folks reserve for the moment after biting into a wormy apple. As the girl for whom he carries a torch, Eleanor Parker conveys no emotion at all. Much of the dialogue they speak does not deserve to travel at the speed of sound. To its credit, Chain Lightning uses expert photographic effects to wring plenty of excitement out of its flying sequences, suggests that a good movie is waiting to be made about jet aviation...
...candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest" stories, the Sun corralled such topflight reporters as Jacob Riis, Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Will Irwin, Irvin S. Cobb and Frank Ward O'Malley...