Word: brat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swamis with Sidelines. H. Hatterr, Desani's comic hero, is a born stooge and fall guy. Born illegitimate, "a love-brat, a mixed Oriental-Occidental sinfant," Hero Hatterr endures a series of misadventures which keep him low man on life's totem pole...
Giant Manager Leo Durocher's theory that "nice guys finish last" gets the heartfelt support of his rambunctious second baseman, Eddie ("the Brat") Stanky. An expert at the art of baseball trickery, within or without the rules,* Stanky, says approving Manager Durocher, "pulls up a team that's down and keeps the infield together. He's the fire and spirit of this club...
...ugly working-class characters combine good nature, impudence and long-suffering patience with a proper English sense of a citizen's importance. Example: a squat cockney in a cap, a runny-nosed brat dangling from his shoulder, strides past a cluster of bristling generals to inspect a parade-dress line of soldiers. Giles's caption: "His argument is that as a taxpayer he has as much right to inspect things as anybody else...
Within two days, petitions had gone up in all the Houses, calling for a return to the old rules, and the CRIMSON returned to the attack with another editorial, urging that "the bawling brat must be thrown into the lap of (President Conant) immediately after his return from England." Mr. Conant was abroad recovering from the rigors of the tercentenary...
Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis and Arthur Treacher work to make the film's burlesque of gangster customs fitfully amusing, though it is never good enough to offset a phony love story that insists on taking itself seriously. As the truculent brat who poses as the bigshot's son (and who is intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering...