Word: brotherly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...governor of Louisiana, swaggering, shifty-eyed Earl Kemp Long has hardly been able to spit, scratch or take off his shoes without rousing a disconcerting ghost. During his 3½ months in office the legend of his brother Huey has dominated and overshadowed him almost as thoroughly as the live Kingfish did during the noisy years of the Great Louisiana Hayride...
...times it is almost more than Earl can bear. At a press conference held shortly after he was elected governor he cried: "Huey couldn't have been elected dogcatcher without my help . . ." But these honest outbursts of rage & envy have been infrequent. Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice...
Died. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, first Baron Harmsworth of Egham, 78, scholarly, Liberal younger brother of the late Tory Publishers Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere (London Daily Mail), longtime Member of Parliament (1906-22), short-time Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1919-22); in London...
Newcomer Scott Brady (brother of Cinemactor Lawrence Tierney), who plays the most redeemable of the fugitives, has a likely future on the screen, and Mabel Paige is fine as the very frightened, very brave old woman who conks the deadliest character (well played by Jeff Corey). Warden Roy Best is unaffected and unembarrassed as Warden Roy Best...
...Babe Ruth Story (Allied Artists] is a gawking tribute to a man who deserves better. From the time the grownup Bambino (William Bendix) leaves the shelter of Brother Matthias' (Charles Bickford) industrial school and enters professional baseball, he shambles along such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even...