Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brave One works a slim and simple fable about a boy and a pet bull in Mexico into a lovely and suspenseful film. Director Irving Rappe manages to conceal the obvious contrivances in his plot and setting, which depicts the most opulent peasant life imaginable...
...diterranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull flown across the channel for an old-fashioned Elizabethan barbecue...
...cult of death is the other side of the cult of life, as the Hemingway people's worship of the bull ring suggests (it was perhaps no real mistake in identity when, Lael Tucker notes with pleasure, her husband once was mistaken for "Papa" Hemingway at Spain's Pamplona ring). And so a story that is often deeply moving is also overlaid with words and gestures that have the air of gruesome parody, as when Lael Tucker says to her husband in the last moments: "I love you I love you please die." Or when Wertenbaker with...
...leading swing band, he provoked manifestos and a protest meeting. Passions were further inflamed when the news spread that leading male roles were cast with distinguished opera singers-rising Baritone Eberhard Wächter as Frank Butler; Karl Dönch, famed for his Beckmesser, as Chief Sitting Bull; Tenor Max Lorenz, a renowned Siegfried, as Buffalo Bill. After a rehearsal, onetime Metropolitan Soprano Brenda Lewis, the Annie Oakley and only American in a cast of 80, purred: "I had the impression that Lorenz thought he was playing Siegfried Get Your Annie...
...Brave One (King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano...