Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much better pictures than Gilbert and Sullivan have been made, but none has had so varied and fascinating a score. That is, if you like Gilbert and Sullivan. If not, there's little use in going to the Exeter for a while, because the cultists have taken over, foot-tapping and head-nodding in time to the jounce melodies. A happy smile of delighted recognition is on their faces, and their lips move--not always silently--in accompaniment...
Tipped off that a mysterious gang of undergraduates was trying to peddle advance copies of his final examination for $30 apiece, Instructor Gilbert Geis of the University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand...
Struik was indicted with Harry E. Winner and Mrs. Margaret Gilbert, all on similar charges. Trial had been delayed since 1951 because of extradition proceedings involving Mrs. Gilbert, who resisted transfer from Illinois to Massachusetts...
...Confidential Clerk pretends to be a play about foundlings. The third act resolution involves a "gnus" who mixed the babies up even as in the play of W. S. Gilbert. All of this concern with biological parentage is a first level rendering of the author's genuine concern with Identity. The people on the stage are trying to identify themselves, but it is a sense of identity to which biological parentage is more or less irrelevant. When the movies want to convince their audience that a great musician is performing, they typically provide a close-up shot of swiftly flying...
...picture fails to achieve much originality, it is not because Terry Moore and the octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty...