Word: clansmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Togetherness Stuff. There are non-Clansmen in town whose attitude toward Shirley is somewhat more analytical. They focus on the calculation behind the talent, enjoy the "natural" comedienne but see the cool planning that makes her tick. They take pleasure in her company, as did the friend who squired her to Santa Anita one afternoon, smug in the knowledge that she had telephoned a gagwriter and announced: "I'm going to the races. Give me ten jokes on racing...
...proud Maronite Catholic clansmen of Zghorta. a mountain village famed for its fighting spirit since the days of the First Crusade, are as pious as they are touchy. When they are feuding-and that is most of the time-they are careful to go to church and ask God's help in aiming their guns, and even when they are on the run, they seldom miss Sunday Mass...
...That would be disrespect for the President." He went into the house unarmed. When he left the meeting, the gunman confronted him. "The Abbouds have tyrannized us for 50 years," he cried. Then he fired five shots into Mohammed. Guards seized the gunman. Two days later, Mohammed died, telling clansmen that el Ali was the one they should seek in vengeance. "As God is my witness," protested Suleiman el Ali, "I am sorry this happened...
...papa of the film, played by Charles Boyer, is not the pompous autocrat of Father. He is but a chuckling bystander watching the antics of his clansmen, who are notorious in the community because of their many conquests. There's Uncle Desmond, smoothest operator in Quebec, who collects garters and mounts them on cardboard. He inherited his art from Grandpere, still dapper at 67 years and spryly pursuing his latest widow. What story the film has develops when the adolescent (Bobby Driscoll) imitates the attitude of his uncles and gets in trouble...
...auld tale opens i' bauld fashion, as bonnie Charlie lands i' the Western hi'lands. He gathers the braw clansmen about him i' a unco handsome scene, verra probably set on the only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen...