Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
...turned up the collar of his coat, and watched the crowds milling their way across Anderson Bridge. And the wind was blowing dirty scraps of programs and torn tickets between his feet. Dreams are grand, he smiled wanly and thought of the game. All-Americans that Pre-Flight team has been, big fellows who danced up and down when they came out on the field. He remembered the tense voices about him in the stands, laughing too quickly as they predicted which part of the first quarter the third Pre-Flight touchdown would come. Only they didn't score...
...blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office-holding in an old-fashioned manner: it was a duty...
Tales of Manhattan (20th Century-Fox) is a multiplex answer to a Hollywood producer's dream-a show that telescopes parts for nine stars and five dramatic episodes in one over-all picture. The only continuity is provided by a tail coat which appears in each episode in a hand-me-down career from the shoulders of a rich wastrel to a scarecrow...
...socially conscious minstrel show in which Paul Robeson and Ethel Waters find $50,000 in the tail coat, and with the help of Jack Benny's Rochester divide it with the Hall Johnson Choir and other Hollywood sharecroppers...