Word: crookedness
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Some moviegoers, sharing Huston's preoccupation with his characters, may applaud his decision to see them through at any cost. But the characters themselves, while uniformly well acted, are unevenly drawn. Some, e.g., the master criminal and the self-pitying bookie, are excellent. But the safecracker who worries about...
For the most part, Capra clings so faithfully to Broadway Bill that in one sequence he appears to have lifted scenes bodily out of the old picture without bothering to reshoot them. Among the performers playing a return engagement: Raymond Walburn as a gentlemanly tout, Clarence Muse as a trainer...
Mai Ben Rai. This moderation even in virtue is characteristic of Siam. As the Spaniard says manana, so the Siamese says mai ben rai. If a government official is proved crooked or a wife unfaithful, if a favorite gamecock refuses to fight or an old friend proves treacherous, the Siamese...
John Garfield is the skillful jockey whose well-earned reputation for riding a crooked mile keeps him off U.S. racetracks. To his young motherless son (Orley Lindgren), who tags along from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning...
General Motors Coach buses, led the attack. "Behind this deal," shrilled El Mundo, "is a rapacious promoter internationally known for his misdeeds and crooked deals, a buzzard who presents himself to us disguised as the Holy Ghost, a speculator in shady business, a knave with hands of silk . . . Pawley came...