Word: gunga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improving world. I could hear the birds singing again, and people were laughing; I knew I was the luckiest man in all the world." He celebrated with a farewell bombing, climbed through the clouds reciting poetry in time with the engine. "To the verses of 'Gunga Din' I dropped my first bomb ... on the docks of Homalin. ... I finished my ammunition by strafing the main street of [Lashio] . . . saw two plate-glass windows spatter . . . like artificial snow from a Christmas tree, and I laughed hysterically as two figures ran from a pagoda. . . . I landed back home tired...
...program's natural flow and fun springs very largely from the characters and voices of Joe and Pepe. They are neither professors, semanticists nor actors. Joe is huge, hugely bald Joel Grover Sayre, author (Rackety Rax, etc.), newspaperman (New York Herald Tribune, etc.), Hollywood scenarist (Gunga Din, etc.), scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent...
...maker of pictures such as Penny Serenade, Vivacious Lady, Annie Oakley, Gunga Din, one of the best Astaire-Rogers musicals (Swing Time), Director Stevens has exhibited a versatile talent, a wide range. He has never consciously tried to make a "great picture." But Columbia, which has him under one of Hollywood's favored producer-director contracts, is betting that he will. At 37 he is one of the youngest good directors in the business...
Produced by Pandro S. Berman (Gunga Din, Michael Strogoff), the picture has big milling mobs, the Cathedral of Notre Dame (with close-ups of Gothic sculpture), some of the year's choicest bits of sadism (a flogging, a racking, an unsuccessful hanging), a pitched battle on the cathedral steps, and darkly witching Maureen O'Hara, last seen in a den of cut throats in Jamaica Inn, here seen in a den of cutthroats in medieval Paris...