Word: granger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story tells what happens to some swine among whom the pearl is cast. Mostly, they kill each other to get it, but nobody does get it, because Stewart Granger, the last man left alive, has to run away from hostile natives, leaving the pearl at the bottom of a lagoon. Later he tries to persuade his brother, Captain Taylor, master of a whaling ship, to sail back and raise the treasure. When the captain refuses, Granger steals both Taylor's ship and his wife (Ann Blyth...
Since this movie has been made so often, it is curious that Hollywood cannot at least make it well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And the derring-duo, Taylor and Actress Blyth, seem, in their big storm scene, while all the screen rocks wildly, as beautiful, as smilingly unperturbed and as lifeless as a manikin couple in a sporting-goods-store window...
...possible weak spots in the Lion armor may appear in the 147 and 177 pound class, where Harry Scott and Dale Granger have each lost a match. Three different men have wrestled at 157. Bob Niver will probably fill in tomorrow...
...Well, Hopp right in with me, the morose one answered. I can't Ward off Prices any more, and I'll be Frank, this is no Granger movement...
...Album (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Jet Fighter, with John Granger, Tige Andrews...