Word: icepick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are several easy-hearted songs, some lines as quietly wicked as an icepick stab, and a few fine jokes. Good joke: at one point, Hope enthusiastically explains the rest of the picture: they'll Get-The-Papers and Stop-the-Marriage; "Boy, what a finish!" There is a frightful offscreen growling that sounds like a couple of nauseated tigers. Crosby, disconcerted: "What was that?" Hope, casually: "Oh, just the Warner Brothers; they're terribly jealous...
...Force's first mission was Kiska, where two regiments went ashore in rubber boats with instructions to use nothing but their icepick-shaped stilettos on the Japs. There were no Japs there, but the Force made the most of it, learned more about living and marching in the field, refused to be tempted into "trigger-happy" firing...
...turns his attention temporarily away from purely pecuniary sinning. Charley Grapewin, a crooked lawyer, spends all his time drinking a sickening mixture of scotch and milk until Lloyd Nolan, a rat of the second water in the inevitable role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail to thrill, except once when Tyrone almost gets killed. The most exciting scene in the movie, in fact, is one in which Dotty uses a bit of a dance as an excuse to assume a very effective substitute...