Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midgie Purvis (by Mary Chase) presents Tallulah Bankhead as an oddball society matron who masquerades as a very old lady. Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of card-of-all-work, and when her son begs that she meet his fiancee and her family in decorous matronly style, she decamps instead. Taking rooms behind a candy store, she turns into a frowsy, fumbly baby sitter who suddenly goes on the loose with her three young charges, causing nocturnal havoc as she careens about and more havoc when it comes...
...Bill Chase, Dave Burgess, and Bob Boni lowered marks for the Elis. Chase took the 440 freestyle in 4:32.1, while Burgess splashed his way through the 200-yard individual medley in 2:06.7. Boni captured the 200-yard backstroke with...
...with Soviet-bloc guns-have not been able to rout the rebels out of their rocky, cave-pitted hillsides in the Escambray mountains 170 miles east of Havana. The fighting is small-scale but so bitter that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small groups of well-trained, night-wise guerrillas have been landed to reinforce...
...film by all odds is the best part of it. Visually, the pounding wild-horse chase and the magnificent archetypal battle between man and beast that ends the chase are hung like a grand, insane mirage against the glittering salt flats. Dramatically, the main themes of the film, mercifully disburdened of Miller's words, resolve themselves in fluent and exciting action. Symbolically, the image of innocence ruthlessly hunted down and indifferently converted to dog meat makes a shattering comment on an aspect of modern life. But the rest of the picture-despite skillful work by Director John Huston...
...Lovely Ambition, Chase...