Word: foils
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...picture is played with a rare amount of honest anger and courage. The local Chamber of Commerce go-getters are mercilessly rendered by Frank McHugh, Charles Dingle and Grant Mitchell; and J. Carrol Naish, who is clearly one of Hollywood's top actors, is a perfect foil for them. Yet the picture has one persistent weakness. If it were honest down to the ground, as it means to be, at least one of the boosters might have had serious misgivings...
...Poonsters, however, have not been idle in their frantic efforts to foil the oncoming CRIMSON tide. Midnight in the Bow Street aviary has been the scene for oil burning as the board of ibitors plotted their revenge. Coming up with a plan they hope will succeed, the funnymen have spent the past week drafting strong arm plug uglies into their organization in an effort to crowd the roster with big time sluggers
...week came old Vienna's turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
Bing suffers in this film Bob Hope did in "The princess and The Pirate." Together, the two are comedians separately, Bob is a comic without a foil and Bing a straight man struggling to be funny. Except for his painful parody of Frank Sinatra, Bing's singing is regular Crosby stuff and good if you like...
...gambling everything, but already in this battle your gallantry has done much to foil his plans. In the face of your proven bravery and fortitude, he will completely fail...