Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made it funny was that he had just finished a picture where a man came to his office to find his name being taken off the door. As an Associate Producer under Zanuck, Wallis supervised One-Way Passage, Gold Diggers of 1933, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Two and one-half years later Zanuck left to form Twentieth Century Productions. Wallis' name went back on the most important Warner Bros, door, has remained there ever since...
Iron Men's inconsequential and unconvincing story concerns a crack squad of "connectors," the men who bolt structural beams in place to be followed by the "gunners'' who rivet them. Andy, the arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils, announces that he is going to quit because his wife is afraid he will fall. Another man does fall, whereupon his co-workers traditionally knock off for the day, start drinking in their favorite barroom. When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which...
...been incorporated into our modern folk-lore. Leslie Banks is fine as one of the harassed, trouble-seeking parents, and Nova Pilbeam, since grown to royal stature in "Nine Days a Queen" is credible as the kidnapped child. And of course Peter Lorre, as the ringleader of the ugliest gang over collected within the walls of one studio, contributes that famous characterization of controlled deadly ferocity...
...Ales Hrdlicka, famed Bohemian-born anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, in the summer usually goes to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska with a gang of amateur helpers to study traces of prehistoric migration from Asia. Last summer he brought back great quantities of weapons, household utensils, stone lamps, plates, amulets, skeletons. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that among this material had been found the largest skull ever recorded on the Western Hemisphere. The cranial capacity was 2,005 cubic centimetres. Average for modern man is 1,450 cc. World record is still held by the great Russian Novelist, Ivan...
...Virginia family made the instrument for killing one of Halsey's enemies. She grows fond of a reckless college boy who runs liquor for the excitement until he is killed in a crash. But the strained, desperate life ends when Halsey turns against her, the gang breaks up. Halsey is killed by his son. Kit hides in the hills, where an easy-going Virginian befriends her. She decides to seek a less adventurous life...