Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life. But the jockey's son, whose hero worship has barely survived a touch of disillusionment, is counting on him to win. In this kind of situation, even...
...weary-wise father, are quite satisfactory in their roles. I doubt that Miss Hayward is deserving of an "Oscar" for this film, but as unwed mothers and alcoholies have won over the Academy's hearts in the past, and, as her present role combines both, she may be a cinch for this year's gilded gewgaw...
Though the stadium triumph had still to be ratified in this week's carnival street-dancing, it was a cinch that Attila, who had won six times before, would be the victor again. Attila had further increased his popularity by boldly protesting against the police department's censorship of calypso songs which ridiculed unpopular local officials. Sang Attila, in the last verse of his prize song: I don't think I am so loyal today...