Word: criss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drivers, they are rather well off. They turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear...
...Criss Cross (Universal International] is fairly routine gangster melodrama in which the hero (Burt Lancaster) is led into a whole mess of trouble by his alluring ex-wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them...
...Criss Cross is further brightened by some excellent supporting performances. The best are Stephen McNally's detective, Dan Duryea as a sarcastic thug who seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's the ticket, that's the ticket," while the mob is planning some program of frightfulness against honest citizens. As the criss-crossed lovers, Lancaster and De Carlo steadily plug the reliable old theme of all-for-love-and-the-world-well-lost. Audiences are not very likely...
...religion must criss-cross over morality, State and Church both abhor and forbid murder, bigamy, and swindling; this is a natural, not a sinister, connection...
...often had control of the ball in the Springfield game," says Coach Munro, "but nobody was cutting to receive passes--and you can't win by standing still." So this week people have been yelling, "cut," and running in criss-cross patterns all over the tufted field...