Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip Levine, David S. Nivison, Caspar R. Ordal, John Reynolds, Paul I. Richards...
...Love's Lovely Counterfeit Author Cain is in the groove again. Principal character is broad-shouldered Ben Grace, chauffeur to Sol Caspar, racketeer ruler of Lake City...
This upset the whole works. Sister No. 1 turned nasty, soon the mayor and the D.A. and the police were out to get Ben. So when Sol Caspar came back one day and Ben and Sister No. 2 fixed him for keeps, they had no influential friends to help them out. Only Sister No. 1 relented enough to weep with Sister No. 2 when her Ben expired of "lead poisoning...
...mysterious creature named Annie, who never does appear.) Variations on the theme, which continually keep running in and out, include the struggle of a bouncing young man, played by Charles Bell, to get ahead in the world, the quarrels between a character evidently inspired by Caspar Milquetoast, played by Robert E. Perry, who also found time to direct the play, and his wife, played by a peroxidized young lady named Louise Kanasireff...
After reminding you that any resemblance between the characters in the picture and a bunch of crooks in Louisiana is exactly what the authors intended, the film proceeds to chronicle the attempts of Victor Moore, a Caspar Milquetoast Senator from "a No'th'n state," to root out the stench that made New Orleans famous. Moore is superb, and he is the only member of the cast who isn't handicapped by the failure to speed up the tempo of the movies. Bob Hope plays William Gaxton's original role and while Hope is always good for his share...