Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steinbeck developed his story from a Mexican fishermen's tale, and it was filmed in Mexico. As a fable of man's hope, it has a great deal of beauty, even elements of greatness; as material for a moving picture-a story to be expressively told in terms of visible action-it is close to perfect. Unfortunately this fine poetic idea is handled much too "poetically." The characters talk too much and their dialogue, pseudo-biblical in style, constantly undermines their believableness as people...
...Minnesota anglers held what they called the World's Original Ice Fishing Contest. At a given signal, 2,196 fishermen rushed out on frozen White Bear Lake near St. Paul, chopped holes in 28-inch ice and dropped in their bait. While 8,000 spectators watched (see cut), they fished for two hours. The winner, John Einum, got an outboard motor for catching a 5¼-lb. walleyed pike...
...Sept. 1, 1939, the fishermen of Puck, Poland, lifted their faces to the grey dawn and saw man's new way of making war. It was the blitzkrieg, paced by the new instrument of air power. It rolled across Puck, rolled across Poland, rolled across Western Europe. Eight months later, in the space of 7½ minutes, it buried 30,000 Hollanders in the rubble of Rotterdam...
...Ledge, off the Rhode Island coast, fishermen caught bottles of 20-year-old Scotch whiskey in their nets. They had found an area where prohibition rum runners had dumped their cargo when hard pressed by the Coast Guard...
There were only six survivors. One hundred and sixty-five fishermen were lost. The whole coast mourned them, but the greatest sorrow was in the village of Matosinhos, nearly all of whose men were drowned. The Rola family lost four men, who between them left 21 children. Old Mother Cunha sat rocking back & forth: "Belmiro, Chico, my beloved ones, come back to me." In a corner, silent and white-faced, sat Chico's bride of five months...