Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who commit murder just for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for fun; with John Ball, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
...murderers (Farley Granger) is horrified by what they have done and gradually comes apart. The other (John Dall) is almost hard enough to carry them both. He is particularly excited by the presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...
There was one note of encouragement. Back from his two-day visit in Missouri (where his candidate for Congress ran last in a field of four), Harry Truman threw a chicken dinner at the White House for all living ex-chairmen of the Democratic Party. Jim Farley could not make it; he was en route to Europe. Neither could John J. Raskob, who had already predicted victory for Tom Dewey. But such oldtimers as Ohio's George White, who managed the unsuccessful Cox-Roosevelt campaign of 1920, and ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings arrived to assure the President that...