Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bull Lea (sire of 33 stakes winners) out of Jane Gail, a Calumet mare named after the wife of Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill...
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...
Workaday apartheid, as applied by Malan, is simply another word for turning down the screws on the blacks. It is 100,000 Negroes jailed each year for failing to carry a pass. It is 60-year-old Jane Zuma, a Johannesburg washerwoman, trudging ten hot miles to deliver her mistress' laundry because she is not allowed to ride on the white man's buses. It is Veteran John Kumalo, a talented Negro broadcaster, beaten up and jailed on the way to his broadcasting studio, and released three days later, innocent of any offense. In Malan...
...movie doings against the real background of the Amazon. A young explorer, in quest of the golden Inca idol his father died seeking, not only discovers the statue but also a girl member of the original ill-fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed with poisoned arrows, and raging rapids. But the movie...
...Director vonSternberg only visited Sound Stage 17, the one cluttered with all that scenery left over from Hong Kong, Saigon, Maylaya,andCaptain China, carrying formula six--"Exotic Movies"--in his pocket. Sticking to the letter of the recipe, he called in a tough guy, Robert Mitchum, and a seductress, Jane Russell, who really want to spend the rest of their lives on a rubber plantation in peace and senility. He added a nice, but clever, international cop, William Bendix, who gets stabbed, and rounded out the cast with a glassy-eyed, crooked, gambling-hall owner surrounded by inscrutable orientals...