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...Little Fugitive (Joseph Burstyn] attempts to follow a seven-year-old boy, a runaway from home, on a 24-hour splurge at Coney Island. As the young hero, Richie Andrusco, who was discovered by the makers of the film while he was riding on the merry-go-round at Coney Island, undoubtedly has the most heart-stirring child's face to appear on the U.S. screen since Jackie Coogan. Even though this lowbudget, Manhattan-made film never takes full advantage of its wonderful material, The Little Fugitive is one of the funniest pictures ever produced in the U.S. outside...
...dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads him to the end of the subway line that goes to Coney Island...
...three sculptures, along with a gracefully sprawling nude called Eve, had moved from owner to owner till they came to rest at a side show at Blackpool, a more sedate version of Coney Island, full of slot machines, peep shows and freaks. The Epsteins used to draw up to $4,000 a week, but when receipts fell off, the owner decided to sell...
...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) has a climactic sequence that seems to have been made to order for 3-D: a prehistoric monster tangled up in a Coney Island roller coaster. But the picture is a flattie, and unfortunately the writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed...
...chested Tom Sharkey left his native Ireland at twelve to go to sea, knocked out 39 opponents in 54 fights, yet lost his crucial bouts with Heavyweight Champions Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He came closest to the title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running a famous bar on Manhattan's 14th Street, he drifted to the West Coast, died a pauper...