Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gambler tries to get the hero to toss the championship fight, and stuffs money in his coat pocket to urge him on, but the hero spurns him. On the big night at the Garden the hero is down on the canvas when he sees the gambler at the ringside grimacing at him to quit. This burns him so much that he leaps up and wins the fight, like that. Soon after, the gambler's goons throw the hero into the Hudson River, but he survives and goes to live in Germany...
...slick U.S. gamblers have crossed the ocean, and they put female temptation in the way of the Blond Aryan. Some shots of late nights, cigarettes, etc. make it plain that the Blond Aryan is out of training. In the final fight he appears a pushover, but the hero rushes to the ringside and inspires his protégé to get in there and win-which he does...
...first, and more engaging episode is the saga of Mr. J. Thaddeus Toad, hero of British author Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Disney has brought him to life on the screen with a spontaneous, satirical humor that does well by Mr. Grahame...
...even more irksome was the criticism of the players-and it was hero that the grandstand quarterback displayed himself in all his ignorance. The particular member of the species who was behind mo reached two major conclusions during the course of the game, and he was not averse to letting others know about them. First, he thought that the Harvard quarterbacks should call more end runs. Second, he thought that Harvard should use fewer passes...
...from internal evidence in Thieves' Highway, that the Johnston Office is letting down the bars on what is and is not censorable. In this movie a prostitute (Valentina Cortesa) wins the hero from the-girl-back-home with whom he had been violently in love only two days earlier. Besides this reversal of Hollywood tradition, there is an excessively steamy love scene between Cortesa and Conte after an excessively cute game of ticktacktoe on his left pectoral...