Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scott's Borana tracker, turned aside. Scott finally crept close enough to aim between the elephant's eyes. But his admiration for the handsome old tusker dulled his urge to kill. He shot high, the old bull crashed off, and Colonel Scott returned to the States, well content that the big one got away...
...fill, especially when limited to the generally false sounding lines that Miller provides, Whedon deserves much credit for making Chris extremely natural and likeable, mostly devoid of Miller's pomposity. But Whedon is not quite deft enough to give the role its proper proportions. He too often is content with a safe reading of his difficult lines, seldom rising very much above his "nice guy" interpretation...
...speaking visitors. After Welterweight Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth won his $50 purse, the traveling sportsman could have got a bet down in the next event on another "youngster full of all actions with never retreat, who loves the give and take method to provide sensation for fans to their hearts' content...
...words" marks one as quite a sport, movies of no more than routine shoddiness now feature the word "hell" in their titles. The Johnson office, apparently chastened by legal fiat and public demand, puts up with this back-fence marquee scribbling and would presumably make allowances for some spicy content in the plots. But the Legion of Decency, which isn't for one moment fooled by all this talk of liberal standards and progressively adult entertainment, just won't tolerate more than surface rudeness. This is probably just as well because the depths of Hollywood's taste have not been...
...pictures seem to favor the sea as their excuse for swearing. Richard Widmark drove his submaraine to Hell and High Water, while Allan Ladd was frozen in Hell Below Zero. Currently, some Italians have been renamed Hell Raiders of the Deep (an earlier, more ingenuous Widmark was content with the term "frogman" in the same line of work). Ida Lupino has also released a bit of whimsy called, for little reason, Private Hell 36. These are not good films...