Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well into his thigh bone...
Foul was the night, and black the situation. Four hundred desperate Spaniards, crammed captive in the hold, had rushed in dead of night upon their guards, seized bayonets, and sliced their way through British flesh to mastery of the H.M.S. Renown. The dawn lit a scarlet scene: human rubble on the decks, the scuppers running with gore, the Spaniards in command. Brave Lieut. Bush, bleeding from nine wounds, lay hidden after the melee behind a cannon's hulk. "What would England say?" he asked himself bitterly. "What would the navy say?" Ah God, if only Hornblower had been there...
...standards generally used in judging movies whose purpose is to argue a social moral, Flesh and Fury is particularly unstimulating. The symbols are painfully obvious: Jan Sterling, as the money-sucking girl friend, represents all who are callous and indifferent towards the naturally afflicted; Mona Freeman, as a reporter and a member of a wealthy family, represents the sympathetic and the understanding. These two struggle insipidly for Callan's love, the outcome never in doubt. Virtue at length triumphs, not through its own strength, but through the machinations of the plot...
Though a poor picture so far as its moral purpose is concerned, Flesh and Fury has moments of excellent action. The ten minutes or so devoted to boxing scenes almost lift the picture out of triteness...
Despite this technical excellence, I find it difficult to recommend Flesh and Fury. Ten minutes of fisticuffs is hardly worth the hour and twenty minutes of sentiment and moralizing that goes on between bouts...