Word: crunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker in her rebozo. Actor Lancaster (a co-producer of the movie) is the virtuoso...
...takes service as a squire with the kindly Earl of Mackworth (Herbert Marshall), quickly wins distinction with his arms-in the bower of milord's pretty daughter (Actress Leigh) as well as in the joust. In the end, Curtis clears his father's name, puts the crunch on the villain, gets the girl-and saves the state...
...more than love-on-the-run, and all the political furniture could just as well be Grand Rapids-it is only there for the hero and heroine to fall over. As a result, Director Reed spends much of his time straining for exquisite effects (e.g., the hoarse crunch of snow under the Russian kidnap-car as it crawls like a malevolent beetle in pursuit of the heroine) that go with the rest of the picture about as well as a Dostoevsky passage goes with Erie Stanley Gardner...
...destroyer Daring: "We could feel the ship shaking, as if distant depth charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks as if a giant hand had smashed its buildings to the ground...
Link's story is simple enough. He was an orphan from The Narrows, the Negro slum of Monmouth, down by the river. He had been brought up by Aunt Abbie Crunch, a former schoolteacher and a lady of almost painful rectitude. But Bill Hod had been an even greater influence than Abbie. Hod was the Negro owner of the Last Chance, a coldblooded, iron-fisted racketeer who paid Link's way. through college and wised him up to life. The trouble began when Camilo, Mrs. Treadway's daughter, met Link down at the docks one foggy night...