Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good; this one isn't. It has Rod Steiger, whose mock-murderous mood makes it a smash, and Jan Sterling, who could have been the sexually-repressed daughter of a prurient minister. As we said to our companion...
...their audiences were cool. At Oxford some 5,000 people, mostly students, broke police lines to crowd around them booing and chanting: "Poor old Joe, poor old Joe!" (to the tune of Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe). Bulganin stood up smiling and raising his arms like a boxer acknowledging applause, signed autographs and patted student cheeks. In New College quadrangle, students set off a huge firecracker which made B. & K. jump, led Bulganin to quip: "Are they making an atomic bomb...
...boxer competing in the House championships last week received a concussion as a result of his fight Thursday, it was learned last night, and is now resting in a Boston hospital...
...plot, Director-Adapter Julien Duvivier has strung together an ill-assorted, 115-minute necklace of incidents-some mildly irreverent (as when Fernandel steals a favorite crucifix from his old church), some funny, some dull. As usual, the priest is better at pugilism than piety: he knocks out a professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn...
...early, their only consolation the blue ribbons in their own classes. When the call went out for best in show, Wilber White Swan strutted onstage like a cocksure ham, flaunting his dog's conviction that he was a lot more of a dog than the other finalists-the boxer, the bloodhound, the English setter, the standard poodle and the Sealyham. The judge's vote made Wilber the first toy dog ever to win the high award. He may have looked like a useless household ornament, but to his owner, Long Island Dog Breeder Bertha Smith...