Word: jell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things are sorrier than fantasy that does not jell. This doesn't. William Powell has had long experience in playing a flustered man of distinction, but this time he plays it as if it were one experience too many. Miss Blyth is about as ichthyoid as you can get and still interest more forward-looking vertebrates. During the long buildup to her first appearance there seems to be some hope for the movie; but once they have a mermaid on their hands, the people who made the picture haven't even a Peabody's idea what...
Tricks & Timing. The program is carefully rehearsed, to the last dab of whipped cream, and Mrs. Lucas usually cooks a sample of everything beforehand, so the audience can see how the dishes ought to look, without waiting for them to cook or jell. On the air, Mrs. Lucas does it all over again, explaining her tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again...
...that are so intangible and so multiple that none of them comes convincingly to life. But Montgomery is a likable performer and Newcomer Fred Clark is a gifted and vigorous one. Plump Thomas Gomez has a ripe old time character-acting. Ride the Pink Horse doesn't really jell as the unusual picture that it evidently set out to be, but it is an amusing melodrama, cross-lighted with intelligence and good intentions...
...major oil empires. A reorganized Pemex would undoubtedly supervise the new setup in order to sustain the necessary fagade of national control. But the independents have reservations: they want guarantees of long tenure, assurances against labor strife. It will probably take a lot of gelatine to make the scheme jell...
...what acting is required is adequately handled by Helen Carew and Charles Middleton as the wife and her farmer, any by Charles Burrows, in the only true comic characterization, as Uncle Walt, the perennial senile hick, The rest of the cast waits of the plot to thicken an occasionally jell into a laugh. There are more than the usual number of chuckles and a few that make you rock...