Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tranquilizer. In Hicksville, N.Y., Alex Szwetowski pleaded innocent to drunken driving, admitted he had been drinking when arrested after an accident but insisted that he was only sipping some wine to soothe his nerves...
...like people. What is even rarer, so do most of the actors. Dialogue between a couple of beady-eyed spring peepers at a swimming hole: "Nekkid?" "Nekkid!" Arthur Kennedy, as a bestial Yankee shack dweller, is frightening, but a little too garrulous for a New Englander, even a drunken one. Newcomer Hope Lange is finely fraught as his stepdaughter. Lana Turner plays a mother who is a bundle of nerves about bundling...
Like most of Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform...
...story develops, it gradually begins to dawn on the simple heroine that what her father feeds on is power. Having used her to put away her drunken and embarrassing mother, he proposes, in effect, to buy his daughter's regard on his deathbed by offering her all he is worth. Not too bright, surrounded by the old man's covetous relatives, and wanting only peace and marriage to a weak-willed young man she has fallen in love with, Alberte knows only that she must escape the maze of greed that Threatens to trap her. Refusing her father...
...Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about a new flood of failings in the grim green mountains. Last year's suicide total (57) was amongst the highest per capita...