Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie, too, is funny. It starts in a forest--not unlike Sherwood Forest--where the Black Fox--not unlike Robin Hood--is hiding out with his gang of trusty-men. Danny Kaye and Glynis Johns are trusty-men. Miss Johns is a Captain and Danny Kaye is the Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel...
...died two weeks ago at the age of 71. A lifelong railroader, Aydelott signed on as a track laborer for the Rio Grande in 1936, shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in transportation. He moved up fast, learned his business as an assistant gang foreman, track inspector, engineering assistant and trainmaster. He changed to a white collar in 1943, was made vice president and general manager in 1954, executive vice president last year...
...clever; it's that Playwright Williams is so much cleverer throwing monkey wrenches into it. What with the wrong person turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really seems to be taking revenge...
Suggestible readers who want to continue the séance can buy an LP record ($5.95) on which Bridey can be heard gasping out her story. She sounds somewhat like a savagely beaten gun moll who is being quizzed by the opposition gang...
Reporter Dinneen spotted Tony Pino, the gang's mastermind, when he was first brought in for questioning by police. He got to know him well and through him the rest of the gang, won their confidence...