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Upstaged. In New London, Conn., Walter Mamonis explained to doctors that after he had caught a shark in Long Island Sound, beached it, hung it on a hoist and struck a traditional fisherman's pose beside it, the shark bit his hand...
...brainchild close to life. Swooping happily on her broomstick or chortling over Gretel ("She makes my mouth water" "I'm so glad I caught her"), Rosina Rosylips is fine fun. For the rest, despite Humperdinck's music and Evalds Dajevskis' eerily beautiful settings, Hansel is hoist on its own technology...
Upstaged. In New London, Conn., Walter Mamonis explained to doctors that after he had caught a shark in Long Island Sound, beached it, hung it on a hoist and struck a traditional fisherman's pose beside it, the shark bit his hand...
Slaughter and sex are the ruling passions of Fan Fan The Tulip, a merry jibe at the more pretentious forms of historic motion picture. Louis XV wages lordly war across the screen, counting victory cheap if it costs but 10,000 lives. Villians are skewered on swords and hoist by powder kegs until the welkin rings. And amid the din of charging cavalry and ringing welkins, Lina Lollabridgia turns in the finest bit of provocative acting since Jean Harlow enticed Gable into lathering her back in Red Dust...
Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...