Word: folderol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead he falls back on legal folderol and threats of armed defiance. Leverett must reluctantly meet force with force...
Malaya (MGM) squanders Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and a name-heavy supporting cast in the kind of adventuresome folderol that lesser studios crank out regularly on small, starless budgets. Such high-priced talent probably seemed worth using while the story was still an idea based on an authentic wartime scheme: the smuggling of rubber out of Japanese-held Malaya. But the picture beats the basic idea into pulp fiction...