Word: guys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly on location within...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
...acting were insufficient, the story would become trivial. More specifically, any type of adventure story demands a certain type of character for its roles with the result that individual interpretations must be thrown into the discard. The struggle of the colonel, Sir Guy Standing, between devotion to the army and love for his son lends coherence to the plot. Richard Cromwell brings to the role of the son a sincerity which overcomes the unpleasant aspect of his part, a sufficient proof of his ability. The reactions of Gary Cooper as the rebellious officer and Franchot Tone as the Blues replacement...
...Police later established that his name was John Alferi, that he was a 47-year-old war veteran from Los Angeles, that he had a pass to the Senate gallery signed by Huey Long. Released, he returned to the Capitol to tell reporters: "I think Roosevelt is a good guy. I didn't mean to start anything. When I get my bonus I'm going to buy myself three suits of underwear, three suits of clothes and a ticket back to Los Angeles...
Alidor R. Allemarsch of Sylvania, Sask., said he had made a fortune during the dry season by buying dried wells and cutting them into post holes, which sold like hot cakes. Pastures were so dry about Chippewa Falls, Wis., Guy R. Jewett said, that cows gave powdered milk. From Denver, 1933 Champion Philip McCary complained of the badge: "It isn't gold; it's brass. It isn't a diamond it's a hunk of glass...