Word: gunseller
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...there first, and Eddie Mars walked out the door to be gunned down by his own henchmen. He had control. Elliot Gould as Marlowe has none. Sure, he has the Bogart style--the self-confident, sarcastic attitude towards the police, the crooks, and even the incompetent gunsel who tails him. But he utterly lacks the substance. When, at the end of the film, Marlowe kills Terry, the friend who has deceived him all along, he's trying desperately to preserve the myth of his existence. But it's too late: Marlowe's dead, if he ever existed...
...Country Club, e) "Cheatin' Charlie" (the "Boxer Gunsel...
...student festival-and might just well be the best university movie ever made. A 14-minute comic synopsis of low-class urban life that is vaguely reminiscent of Fellini's work, Murray is the picaresque tale of a vulpine conman who rises from petty-ante rumrunner to gunsel...
...responsible for the biggest clean joke in theater history. As a speakeasy waiter in the 1927 musical Manhattan Mary, he hovered over a gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have mustard or catchup...
Leahy was nominated by Victor Morabito, a co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers. Gunsel was offered by Frank Mc-Namee, president of the Philadelphia Eagles. Washington's George Preston Marshall placed Schissler's name before the meeting...