Word: golds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With every ounce of gold and every dollar she could lay her hands on, Britain's reserves stood at only about $2.6 billion. If they fell to $1 billion, Britain would be too broke to act as banker for the sterling bloc, which might then fall apart. And gold and dollars were running off at a hemorrhagic rate of $200 million a month...
Meanwhile, Kirkland partly atoned for a seven-game losing streak by smearing the Gold Coasters 45 to 27. Edison paced the winners with 17 points while Bixby accounted for ten. Manoff and Crafts led Adams with 12 and 9 markers respectively...
...slow starter, Winthrop plunked its way to a 19 to 17 lead at the half in the sloppy but hard fought scramble, and then succeeded in racking up a 44 to 23 lead during the next two periods while holding the Gold Coasters to six points...
...leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part...
...through the discreet use of the camera. But John Huston, who wrote the screen play and directed, should be the chief recipient of the orchids. The story moves speedily through a number of relevant incidents that contribute to the dramatic tension and to the release that comes when the gold is finally lost. Through it all there is no sense of contrivance, but only a freshness that until now has been the almost complete monoply of movies from beyond the Atlantic...