Word: hodiak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desert Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...
Battle-shocked Marine John Hodiak wakes up in a naval hospital suffering from amnesia, a fairly uncommon disease that appears to be as prevalent in Hollywood as the common cold. With little more than his discharge papers as a clue, Hodiak sets out to reconstruct his past. His unflagging curiosity gets him a few stiff rights to the jaw, raps on the head, unpleasant threats from sinister strangers and the love of pretty nightclub singer Nancy Guild (rhymes, her studio insists, with wild...
...Harvey Girls (Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger; TIME...
...Harvey Girls (Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger; TIME...
...sings the song for all and maybe a little more than it's worth. As one of the Harvey girls, she also fires pistols, plunges wholeheartedly into catfights with dancehall girls and falls in love with the owner of the local gambling den-bold, bad Ned Trent (John Hodiak). At bottom, of course, Ned is not too bad, for on the sly he reads Longfellow and admires the rugged scenery. Besides, there is a still bigger crook in town called Judge Purvis (Preston Foster...