Word: girls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house on F Street S.W., an old Negro lay on a bare bedspring in the junk-crammed yard, taking the sun. One of his legs was off at the knee. Inside, his son and daughter-in-law lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick...
...movie is hampered by occasional Hollywood cliches. There is the gangster type: the sinister leer over the villain's left shoulder and the final gun battle with the police surrounding Garfield and his girl; and the gay ending type: bells tolling and people dancing in the streets...
Except for her way of speaking, Jennifer Jones does a fine job as the young Cuban girl aiding the revolutionaries. John Garfield hasn't changed from any of his other pictures. Pedro Armendariz is a sufficiently frightening villain as the Chief of Police. All except Garfield try to show that they are Cubans by talking without slurs or contractions, but this is more annoying than convincing...
Gayden naturally makes a dignified pass at the girl, while his mother nods approvingly; but the innocent young thing is rescued by the intervention of Gayden's uncle, a solid-citizen doctor. He convinces the mother (through some dubious elementary psychology) that her son is an "incurable psychopath;" that she should (1) go away, (2) send the son to an institution, (3) kill the boy. Mother relays all this to her son, who jilts the girl, plays up to his beloved mom, and leaves everything up to Bainter, who has no chance to get anything done before the curtain falls...
...entries, all seniors, will huddle, shivering, along the starting line at the foot of Tower Court hill. They will be attired in caps and gowns, the latter rolled up to permit sprinting. Each girl will have a hoop...