Word: chuted
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...conclude his first job of directing, called in the cast of ONE-EYED JACKS and asked them to vote on an ending. Though nothing could save this film from being touched by cliche, it is at least interesting as a curiosity piece. Stars Brando and Karl Malden, off the 'chute. Daily...
...skin and bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...
...gang goes in through a coal chute. Unfortunately, the furnace has been converted to oil, and the first man lands in a tank of it. Somebody drops the burglar tools. Somebody else puts a foot through a skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest...
...fleshless legs drop to the ground and die. Children lie dying on filthy cots. Then, as heads in the audience lower, the camera pans along a trundling line of corpse-filled push carts to the edge of a lime pit, where the bodies are sent sprawling down a chute...
Down, Down, Down. Within 18 seconds, Kittinger's stabilizing chute opened, but for more than four minutes more he plummeted in free fall, reaching a velocity of 614 m.p.h. "I fell on my right side for about eight seconds," he says. "Then I found myself on my back watching the balloon recede above me. The sky was almost black. It was a beautiful thing to see. I had a sensation of lying still while the balloon raced away from me. I didn't feel hot or cold, just the right temperature. There was very little spinning...