Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...senses, without defining, the presence of something appallingly ugly in the relations between her father and mother. She learns enough to perceive that Frank Hilliard, an actor whom her mother admires, is somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner's boy who saves her life when, at the end of the picture...
...popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) Dickens' reputation was made. The book was translated into French and German. Winkle. Weller...
...Patrol (RKO) is an account of what happens to twelve members of a British cavalry troop in Mesopotamia in 1915. Arabs, firing from ambush, kill the troop's captain. The rest reach an oasis. The first night, Arabs shoot a sentry, steal the horses. The next morning a cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane lands...
Munday, an unfrocked priest living peacefully with his piano in Le Havre, France, meets a young cockney sailor, Ayton, an attractive weakling who has deserted ship. It soon turns out that Ayton is completely untrustworthy and has done worse things in life than deserting. But by that time Munday, though not blind to his faults, is hopelessly involved with him. When there is danger of Ayton's arrest the pair take refuge with a poverty-stricken farmer and his wife. There, visited occasionally by three friendly Lesbians, they lead a simple life, and Munday has hopes of Ayton...
...really want me, I'll never leave you more" and of "My life is worth living only if I live it for you". There is a lot of that great British outdoor sport, the charity garden party. There are a hurdy-gurdy man and a kindly old cockney woman to leaven the mixture. There is some singing by Irene Dunne which clearly shows how much in love Clive Brook is when he calls it beautiful. But there is nothing new, nothing startling, nothing even mildly lascivious, to disturb the calmness and serenity of this picture of the rehabilitation...