Word: hardboiledness
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In adapting the Hecht-MacArthur riot The Front Page to the screen, Charles Lederer did a mediocre job of changing title and a superb job of not changing the dialogue or action. It's still a caricature of the men who write newspapers when not playing poker or cracking insoluble...
It is in pushing his estimate of Dickens the novelist too boldly that Biographer Johnson finally falls through thin ice. Dickens was not overly sentimental, he insists; the modern age is simply too hardboiled. Echoing Matthew Arnold on Keats, Biographer Johnson says of Dickens: "He is with Shakespeare." But Shakespeare...
Because You're Mine (MGM) is an undernourished cinemusical starring a slimmed-down (156 Ib.) Mario Lanza (who tipped 220 Ibs. in last year's The Great Caruso). Lanza plays a drafted opera star who gets involved with a hardboiled, musically inclined sergeant (James Whitmore) and his pretty...
Set off against some forceful battle sequences that make use of authentic stock war footage is a cast of not-so-authentic stock characters. Among them: a hardboiled, softhearted colonel (Frank Lovejoy);* a boy who becomes a man under fire (Rusty Tamblyn); a retread captain (Richard Carlson); and, for laughs...
Boots Malone has top billing. Set at a Maryland race track, it is the story of a young boy and a hardboiled jockey's agent, bound together by the thrills of horse racing. There is little of the traditional "Win the big race" story. When the climactic dash down the...