Word: holywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest laughs of the whole film are provided by Holywood's conception of a football game. Among directorial novelties is the timekeeper who fires a gun to denote the end of the game...
Ross Alexander is a prize smart-alec, and his role in "Here Comes Carter" suits him perfectly. A Holywood publicity agent, he wise-crack himself out of his job and into digging dirt for a radio gossip hour. Ross takes over the broadcast when his boss gets drunk, and by fancy mudslinging becomes the darling of the ether. His girl resents this sordid occupation, and, together with some gangsters whom he is exposing in his broadcasts, brings adventures to the here. In the fade-out, however, true love triumphs...
...handsome a man as Dartmouth even offered to the movies, Bob Allen seemed destined to mirror the obscurity of another Dartmouth son in Holywood, Charles Starrett. Allen knocked about in bit parts for several years and could convince no one that his football and college stage training meant anything...
...from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew on the city, sent out patrols...