Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the broken bone failed to heal, after weeks of conventional treatment, the soldier was operated on. He was mystified to find that his only new wound was a 2½-inch incision above the hipbone. Two days later, the German surgeons told him to move his leg; a few days after that, they told him to walk. He did. He has walked ever since...
After his exchange, U.S. Army doctors X-rayed the soldier's leg. They were amazed at what they saw: a half-inch metal rod of some kind had been rammed down the thighbone through the marrow for three-quarters of the bone's length, thus supplying a permanent, internal splint...
...stylized white stone head of Tlaloc, a rain god from the Mixteca-Puebla tribes, famed for their delicate gold jewelry and carvings on bone and wood...
Instead of permitting Bone to be a bewildered journalist, Hollywood has converted him into a moody pianist. In the embarrassingly incredible denouement, he ends his unhappy love life at the concert grand of the London Philharmonic as the building burns down around him and the flames lick his face...
...Hangover Square" is one of those motion pictures about which one feels particularly cheated, for its has a cast that is convincing and several highly professional moments. Cregar gives an intense portrayal as Bone; Linda Darnell, his high-kicking cafe dancer, repeats her role of the designing seductress in "Summer Storm" with surprising skill. There are some very effective touches in the photography: a long view of a Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, and what is unquestionably the film's most absorbing minute, a mouth-watering close-up of the Darnell cheescake...