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...ballad of Frankie & her man, who done her wrong, was called by Carl Sandburg the U.S.'s "classical gutter song." There are upward of 300 versions of Frankie and Johnnie, and no one knows just when & where it began. Frankie Baker, a young tart in St. Louis' Negro district in 1899, was sure she inspired the lament. When her man (Albert Britt) two-timed her, Frankie tongue-lashed him; when he pulled a knife on her, she shot him dead. Tried for murder, she was acquitted because she killed in self-defense. People on the streets began singing...
...Come Fill the Cup" is a puckish title for a puckish film. Originally taken from a novel by Harlan Ware, the movie develops into a show dedicated to the proposition that a drunk's world is a delightful place. It is a life that shifts from gutter to mansion in a matter of seconds, and it involves all sorts of fascinating people. And, it has a cops-and-robbers ending...
...have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight." London's anti-American, middlebrow New Statesman and Nation felt a primitive thrill: "The local boy from Leamington Spa became the giant-killer and we all felt bigger and better in consequence . . . Europe had risen from the gutter and thrashed the Prince of the Dollar Empire ... Morale rises ... Even the Government becomes our Government and can be sure of re-election on such a morning after...
...Danger" is Dick Powell's latest addition to his "gat, gal and gutter" series. In this one he plays a small time bookie who has been framed for a payroll robbery he didn't commit. After five years he is pardoned on the evidence of an alcoholic ex-Marine who is interested in a share of the payroll money. The film's action centers around Powell's attempts to clear himself...
...heavy fighting around the Chang-Jin reservoir in northeast Korea, Bob had been slightly wounded by gunfire and had lain in a gutter for three days,' covered only by a raincoat. "There was a medic there,'' he said, "but every time I started to call him, I heard someone else call, and I figured they were worse off than me." When Chinese overran the area, Smith played dead, even when some of them stripped him of parts of his clothing. Finally he made his way to a nearby house, where he found other wounded G.I.s...