Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Macao (RKO Radio), set on the Portuguese island of that name off the coast of Hong Kong, appears to be inhabited by characters who bear a striking resemblance to the types that populate the never-never land of moviedom. On hand are a sultry nightclub singer (Jane Russell), an intrepid adventurer (Robert Mitchum), and an American cop (William Bendix) who is rubbed out while running down the sinister proprietor (Brad Dexter) of the Quick...
Deadline-U.S.A. (20th Century-Fox) casts Humphrey Bogart as the crusading managing editor of a big-city daily whose actions are worthy of the most intrepid Hollywood hero. Bogart 1) tangles with an underworld vice czar, 2) roughs up a witness in a murder case involving the mink-clad body of the standard beautiful blonde, 3) wins a reprieve for his foundering, 47-year-old newspaper, the Day,* 4) wins back his divorced wife (Kim Hunter), 5) calls his publisher's old widow (Ethel Barrymore) "Baby...
...Barefoot Mailman (Columbia) is a horse opera without horses. It takes place not in the West but on the Florida frontier of 1890, when the U.S. mail traveled between primitive Miami and Palm Beach on bare but intrepid feet. The menace comes from a marauding band of beachcombers, who would as gladly rob the postal service as kidnap the ingenue or shoot up the village of Miami. In bright new SupercineColor,* they accomplish all three...
...some tall grass," repeated the audience, and this reporter was soundly flailed in the process. There were more obstacles such as a small river, a big river, some trees, and the elephant's cave which were all surmounted with appropriate sounds and motions. Suddenly, with a pained cry, the intrepid hunter discovered the apocryphal elephant and went through the whole routine, backwards and in double time...
...intrepid team of astronomers from Indiana University who made the long trek to find out the exact location on the map of the geographical center of U.S. population [TIME, Oct. 8] might have saved the wear & tear on their seagoing sextants by consulting a member of the local Boy Scout troop...