Word: cordova
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...story about one of the minor U.S. minorities-California's Paisanos, the indigent descendants of the original Indians and Spanish settlers. One of them, an amiable no-good (Arturo de Cordova), is trying to make time with a young woman (Dorothy Lamour) who is interested only in her boy friend Benny, at war in the Pacific. Between failures with her, the no-good succeeds in some fine gypping of Benny's naive old father (J. Carrol Naish...
...story is an old one, which wears well because it appeals to man's desire to be free of convention. A London lady, Joan Fontaine, bored by her secluded life, falls in love with a dashing but thoroughly honorable Robin Hood of the sea, Arturo de Cordova. The story is a romantic and glorified one, but it is not false. No old maid's happy ending makes a travesty of the film...
...other hand, although Miss Fontaine is eminently suited for Technicolor, her acting is often painfully overdone. She has a wonderfully expressive face, which she uses to full advantage in moments of excitement, but she lacks restraint in quieter scenes. De Cordova hasn't the spark that makes a buccaneer real...
...Ponce critic who did not flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...
...Cornwall, the miracle happens. Her new butler William (Cecil Kellaway) has a friend and master hiding in the vicinity who has been using her bed and building fancies about her portrait. This vagabond lover (Arturo de Cordova) is a Frenchman with a taste for Ronsard, tabac and sketching seabirds. He is also wonderfully handsome and softspoken, and he thrills her with his talk of being free, free, a law unto himself. He manages this by piracy, robbing the rich and giving generously to the poor. Stimulated by this philosophic man of action, Lady St. Columb begins to act like...