Word: derringers
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The dialogue, stressing unexpected humor, the incongruous wise-crack, is almost as heroic in spots as the palmists bits of derring-do in earlier Bogart pieces. Jennifer Jones, with blonde hair and a sometimes British accent, accounts for much of the dialogue in situations. As a woman who, while not...
The Air Force, with supersonic craft already in the air, has not lost its taste or its need for high-speed derring-do. At Holloman Air Force Base, N.Mex., is a menacing contraption: a rocket-propelled sled that travels on railroad rails at 750 m.p.h. As an additional attraction, the...
Since this movie has been made so often, it is curious that Hollywood cannot at least make it well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And...
Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure...
He had won his people's hearts in the only way left to majesty, which no longer can stir by bold decisions or amaze by feats of derring-do. He made ordinariness shine. Exhausting himself by faithful performance of the tedious ceremonial rounds, exemplifying in his family life a...