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Word: chasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...fleeting moments, the cockeyed speed of the chase recalls the wonderful jet-propelled jalopies of the old silent comedies. Not half so effective as comic relief is the stock, bug-eyed mugging of William Bendix. One of the best things in the film is the shy, incredulous expressions of the Mexican extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...TIME, June 6), Hunter's Horn invites the inevitable comparison with Herman Melville and his classic tale of Captain Ahab's pursuit of Moby Dick. That Melville's influence can be dangerous is shown in this case by the fact that Nunn Ballew's chase of King Devil has little of the intensity of Ahab's passionate quest after the white whale. In the end, the hunting down of the great fox is only an interruption in the more interesting story of a family's fight to win back its place in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fox Hunt | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

After 18 hectic years of piloting Shanghai's only U.S.-owned newspaper, Editor Randall Chase Gould, 51, was indeed "All finish!" in the Far East. To Gould, it had been a disillusioning experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Finish! | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Window. Bobby Driscoll in a hair-raising chase through Manhattan slums (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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