Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing to a popular hero...
...still in the works: it will need no scenery, no curtain, no stage lights, no music. The house lights will not be dimmed at any time, and the action will unroll without a break. The subject: the life of a man. The casting: different actors to play the hero at different ages; one actress to play all the major female parts...
...highest-paid player in baseball, had said in advance that he would give the money gifts from his hero-worshiping fans to charity. But there was a lot more than money ($7,500) in the gifts that were showered on him: two automobiles, a motorboat, two television sets, a radio, two watches, a $100 hat, an electric blanket, shirts, ties, a watch chain, potatoes, oranges, walnuts, lima beans, homemade lemonade, 300 quarts of ice cream. After the speeches, Joe bit his lip and let the tears run down his cheeks. "I thank the good Lord that he made...
...think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight. After breaking an ax handle on the villain's hand, Conte mauls him from one end of a bar to the other with a series of rabbit punches, each of which sounds like the cracking...
...realism comes chiefly from the absence of the typical villain-hero relationship that marks the average movie plot. Henry Fonda has the leading part but he only rebels against the mob; he cannot stop the lynching. Fonda takes the position of a muse that realizes, even raises his voice against the injustice, yet when the end comes, he has really been only a bystander. And the villains too are not singly responsible but are rather cowards whose weaknesses combined make a criminal potent enough to kill three...