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...membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...
...Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about the effect of U.S. industrialism on the feudal Midwest as embodied in the Ambersons. Founder of this dynasty (in 1873) is sharp-trading Major Amberson (Richard Bennett), who has become so rich that the magnificence of the Ambersons stands out in their little clapboard town like a plaid suit at a funeral. Last and worst of the clan is spoiled, arrogant Grandson George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who gets his deserved "comeuppance" (in 1912) from the new industrialism which his baronial mind can neither understand nor tolerate...
Most of Flat's plot is concerned with keeping Paisano Garfield from committing the unpardonable sin of marrying. This predicament would never have arisen if his grandfather had not died and bequeathed him two clapboard houses and a gold watch-a misfortune bemoaned by his indolent companions when they discover that a peach-skinned Portuguese named Hedy Lamarr has her dark eyes on their new-found wealth...
Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...
Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...