Word: hawkshaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chanteuse in this delightful den is of course a beautiful Gallie hawkshaw, with orders to help Powell out in every way possible. Powell joins the foreign legion, battles the native revolutionaries (the same seamy Oriental, crowd who were cut down in "Wake Island", "Bataan", "Air Force" and infinitum) gets captured, escapes, locates the evil Nazi (left over from "A Yank in the R.A.F." "Crash Dive", and "Action in the North Atlantic") and finally lands the dame. The whole affair rises to a glorious climax when Powell returns in triumph to his Nebraska hay farm...
William Earl Lama, 49, is a nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
...made a big arrest in 20 years, heard noises in the empty house next door. The police surrounded the house, yelled, "Come out!" Lama sheepishly came out, bummed a cigaret and said he couldn't have committed the murders because he was in Montreal that day. As Chief Hawkshaw clapped Lama in jail, the Chief sighed: "I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...simplicity of the plot: it's about a pianist (Boyer) who marries (Bergman) and, for the sake of a few diamonds, tries to drive his wife mad to get her put away and enable him to search her house for the coveted stones. Joseph Cotten is a hawkshaw from Scotland Yard who pulls the here act. Director George Cuckor carries the audience along with all the stages of deliberately produced insanity partly by keeping the plot moving and partly by knocking all of the "For Whom the Bell Tolls" freshness out of Ingrid Bergman and transforming her into a near...
...with a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, he chases a football like a beagle after a rabbit, always seems to dive to the bottom of the pile to get it. He believes a referee's job calls for neither a blind man nor a hawkshaw, prefers to keep the show going rather than call every infraction of football's 65 pages of rules...