Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whom the Bell Tolls. In Korah, Ontario, after Farmer Gordon Reed was found guilty of drunken driving, a businessman of the same name requested a radio announcer to specify that he was not the man in question, several hours later was arrested on the same charge...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...
Melodramatic Lesson. The brutal core of Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...
...wine cellar and got roaring drunk. I was sent to bed-I was only ten-but from my room I heard everything. My father and my uncle went out to the woodshed and got two axes. Then they went to the cellar and killed every one of the drunken soldiers. They buried them that night outside the village and my father made me swear to keep the secret which would have cost the lives of our whole family...
...Angeles judge gave John Agar, ex-husband of Shirley Temple, five months in jail for persistent drunken driving...