Word: ginners
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...quiet lyricism of Talk to Me Like the Rain is shattered by 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, for dramatic interest the best play of the three. Jo Linch, as the battered wife of an unscrupulous cotton-ginner, gives by far her best performance in this community, displaying a remarkable gift for change of pace. Occasionally vivacious, Miss Linch reserves her moments of stupidity for the times when she is confronted by a stronger will. Only during a few seconds--while skipping blithely around the stage--does her characterization crack. Andre Gregory, as her seducer, is less successful, partially because...
...cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting that the trial be held...
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