Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire furniture against the walls...
...nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate in his head and isn't taking any lip from anyone. The big boy is Johnny, played by Alan Ladd. His wife hadn't bothered to send him a "Dear John" letter, so he doesn't know that she's been playing around with a night club operator in his absence. When he does find out, he leaves her, but when she is murdered, he decides to play stoop-tag with the police...
...more-adding up to more than his $104,000 salary in 13 years as president. Explained Johnson shyly: "A schoolmaster doesn't earn much money, but I have lived frugally and made some prudent investments. I would be able to give the college more if I hadn't made some imprudent ones...
...papers were full of strike threats, but somehow no one could quite believe the talk of a baseball strike. There hadn't been anything like it since 1912 when the great Ty Cobb was suspended for climbing into the grandstand and slugging a fan. Then, 18 Detroit Tigers had gone on a sympathy strike-and the management had broken it in one day by fielding a pickup team of substitutes...
Garfield and Turner have done as much for this hodge-podge as any two mis-cast screensters can accomplish in one film. "Postman," if it hadn't been so thoroughly "improved" between story and script, would have come closer to acclaim as a first-rate movie...