Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China Doll (Jean Harlow), in defiance of the Legion of Decency, has apparently been the mistress of Captain Gaskell (Clark Gable) for six years. James MacArdle (Wallace Beery) is not a tycoon but a greasy, coastwise racketeer, aware that the Kin Lung carries a fat cargo of gold. McCaleb, the drunken novelist (Robert Benchley), insults his fellow passengers by misunderstanding them completely. High point of the story arrives when, having weathered a typhoon, the Kin Lung is attacked by Malay pirates who are in league with Racketeer MacArdle...
...leisurely, the more adventurous because it contrasted so sharply with the sleepy green countryside through which the horses pulled the boats. Against a detailed and wholly charming background, made up of boaters' quarrels and friendships, their odd songs and foolish curses, their contempt for hogs as cargo, their obstreperous pride in getting drunk and having fights, the picture outlines an incident which fits perfectly into the nostalgic mood which its surroundings have produced. It is the surprisingly touching story of a farm boy (Henry Fonda), working as a boater because he wants money to buy land, and a girl...
...city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara to see the Duke, Titian would rent a barge and five servants. Going to Ferrara on his own business he used the cheapest cargo boats...
...will remain at Midway 15 days, putting ashore supplies and construction material for an air base. When she moves on to Wake, 25 of her crew will be left behind to complete the building job. In addition to its construction material, the North Haven's 6,000-ton cargo includes every imaginable item needed to keep the men on the islands supplied with life's necessities during their lonely tenure. Some of the items: razor blades, soap, safety pins, flashlights, cigarets, chewing tobacco, shoelaces, candy, shoe polish, boxing gloves, chess sets, checkerboards, books, toothpicks, toothpaste, chewing gum, food...
...damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically mad, and disturbs the audience by its sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until it is wrested from their grasp by a troop of mercenary soldiers. In the fight which ensues, the comic spirit vanishes, and the bucaneers receive...