Word: holywood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...admirable anti-Darlan, anti-Vichy sentiments of "Passage to Marseille" are somewhat obscured by its overstyled presentation. Still, its statements even now are undoubtedly more explicit than most Holywood war pictures...
Chief Frank Terwilliger ("only don't call me Frank"), in contrast to his confrere, is a real Westerner, claiming Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as his home address. Prospector, gold miner, Holywood stunt man, forest ranger--he has at one time or another been all of these. Instead of working his way through college by hashing, selling clothes, or firing furnaces aces, he worked his way through two years at Nevada School of Mines by mining gold and silver at Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California...
This flopperoo par excellance should help tech the Holywood master minds that it would be better to save their turkeys for Thanksgiving...
...doctor among other things. Oh well--the whole world is confused these days. It's too much to expect that the movies could bring order out of chaos. Somehow or other this picture misses its mark. Virginia is a good state in a lot of ways but the Holywood people sure make it out to be a pretty sad place. Oh yes, they bring home the most beautiful woman in the world--and how do they bring her? In a coffin. Now look, is that fair? After waiting for years to see the most beautiful woman in the world...
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...