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...house by the sea, dragging a sprained ankle, comes Ross Dennehay, a deserter from the U.S. Army in England. An amoral boor whose only aim is to get back to the U.S. and some easy wartime money, he has already killed two people in making his getaway. Edwina hides him for ten days, nurses him, becomes his mistress. She stands in horror of his past, suffers from his coarseness, even realizes that Dennehay wouldn't hesitate to kill her at the first suspicious move. But greater than her revulsion and fear is the larger fear of the lonesomeness that...
...separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That's for us..." And again, instead of allowing the disgusted hero to renounce the game and dissolve quietly into the night, the scriptwriters have added a scene in which the forthright fellow gives the sponsor-boor his comeuppance with a pitcher of water...
...rewarded by the usual volume of Red Skelton's antics and prat-falls. Unable to satisfy any but the most ardent fan by sheer weight of pantomime and well-timed gags, M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses his comedy style to give moviegoers something funny and at the same...
Field Marshal Montgomery, says Ralph Ingersoll (The Battle Is the Pay-Off), was not only "a very bad general" but also a "boor." Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower was not only a "political general" but succumbed to British pressure and "lost his nerve." Just before Franklin...
...have always considered Elwyn something of a boor, and in this case, he lived up to our estimation of him. He began to wonder just what his was all about. He performed a simple arithmetic computation. He multiplied the $6 by the 2300 Bowser students and discovered that they were contributing $13,300 per year for the maintenance of the Student Club. He protested...