Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
...stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count...
...Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey-Tunney fight, as he has been assigned to do, is blowing a toy pipe in a speakeasy. Discharged for incompetence, he gets drunk again the next night with better results. An advertising man who finds his conversation witty gives him a job. Presently Bruce Foster has a large suite of offices. He has mastered the technic of "fear copy," which he uses for the exploitation of worthless pastes and washes...
...rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie locks him up in the cabin while she goes to a reception for her son, meets his fiancee Pat (Maureen O'Sullivan), daughter of his boss...
...Annie show a few more of the things Annie has to put up with. At a reception on board the Glacier Queen, Annie snatches so many glasses of punch away from her husband that she gets tipsy herself. Alec persuades his employer to give Terry a job. Terry gets drunk, makes embarrassing remarks about Alec's fondness for the employer's daughter. Finally one day when Annie is ashore trying to borrow money for new boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around to pick up a floating...