Word: galoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hates most is "the new age, the age of the galoot, the fast buck, the something-for-nothing crowd," and he goes out of his way to give every phony he sees a piece of his sharp mind...
Most of the actors in the film do not deserve the plaudits they won on the stage. Leif Erikson plays the husband as such a dumb galoot that it is impossible to believe that a sensitive girl like Deborah would ever have married him. John Kerr puts remarkably little imagination into the part of the boy; it .often reads much better than he plays. it. Deborah Kerr, on the other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash...