Word: feudin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outpost in Morocco (United Artists) is an unlikely yarn, in a desert setting, about some fussin' and feudin' between the French Foreign Legion and the Arabs. Its hero is Legionnaire George Raft, a man with an eye for Arab beauty, who falls in love with the Paris-bred daughter (Marie Windsor) of a rebel chieftain. He is finally obliged, pour la patrie, to dynamite her to kingdom come, along with a large group of her compatriots. Outpost's most dramatic feature: some authentic shots of the Atlas Mountains in French Morocco...
...Feudin', fussin', and a-fighting have occupied the National Student Association for the first year and a half of its existence. The new federation of American college men and women has spent so much of its time politicking, seeking Reds under beds, and just plain organizing, that many of its best friends are fearful that NSA shall soon die of exhaustion. Last summer's national convention in Madison proved little else than that student organizations can waste time as magnificently as anyone else. And that is old news...
Wearing kilts instead of blackface, Larry Parks is a Scotsman here, returning to his ancestral clan. Clans aren't worth a darn unless they're a-feudin' and pretty soon another clan turns up with plaids and tempers that clash with Parks' outfit. After a couple of deep technicolor breaths of the sky (blue) the trappings (scarlet) and the lochs (emerald) the picture settles down to conversation (colorless, but strongly accented). The time has come to stop looking and listen. Clan wars are futile, says the hero sand because his bonny one belongs to the other clan, the time...
...Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie," who was ill with laryngitis. The patrons had come expecting to hear Dorothy's leering Feudin' and Fightin', and got nothing but Phil Regan's clean Irish ballads. But they too kept calling for more...
Those old feudin' pistols are high...