Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meet Me at the Fair (Universal-International) spins a plot that is as insubstantial and as highly colored as cotton candy. It is a sentimental tale of a runaway orphan (Chet Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture...
Through the years, Ase sows his fields with wheat and reaps stones in his bread. His mother goes completely mad. His two best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest...
But his silence only dramatized the investigations being conducted simultaneously by the commission and a Brooklyn grand jury; all week long, the two groups pitchforked up vast, reeking chunks of long-buried evidence on the rackets which bleed a third of a billion dollars a year from the world'...
The "morally simpleminded" standards of the legion, Kerr continues, would automatically ban the filming of much of Nobel Prizewinner François Mauriac's work, or that of English Novelist Graham Greene, both Catholics. Concludes Kerr, after recalling a maxim quoted by French Catholic Paul Claudel ("God writes straight...
The Raiders (Universal-International). According to this pseudohistorical western, California might never have become a state had it not been for hard-fighting Prospector Richard Conte. Backed up by a group of angry miners and homesteaders, Conte kills off crooked Land-Grabber Morris Ankrum, who is trying to keep California...