Word: keenan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gary Merrill) who is running out on his unfaithful wife. On a plane trip, he meets a brassy stripteaser (Shelley Winters) with a heart of gold and mother-in-law trouble, a moody medico (Michael Rennie) who is morally sick over a past misdeed, and a loudmouthed traveling salesman (Keenan Wynn). When the plane crashes, the attorney is the only one of the quartet who survives. In the process of reconstructing the three casualties' lives, his own problems conveniently fall into place...
Contrary to the sanguine predictions of those who thought Governor Dever's signature on a recent red bill spelt the end of communist control legislation, Representatives McInerney and Keenan have proven that it takes more than one surrender to end the unspeakably traditional custom of presenting red bills every January...
...traditional is this custom that the anti-subversive measures currently up for consideration are almost word-for-word copies of last year's red bills. Keenan has taken over sponsorship of the McCarthy-Dorgan bill instructing college presidents and trustees to expel professors, teachers and others who "support or advocate" communism. The Committee on Education has yet to schedule a hearing on this...
More consistent, and the freshest thing in the film, is Keenan Wynn's performance as a cantankerous oil and cattle baron with an amazing capacity for hard liquor, who puts his fist reverently to his heart when .anyone utters the sacred name of Texas...
Producer-Director Clarence Brown, skipping nimbly over the theological soft spots in his plot, takes a firm stand against the forces of Evil, represented by Radio Announcer Keenan Wynn, who doubts that Providence cares whether the Pirates win or lose. On the side of muscular Christianity are Janet Leigh as the girl who gets Douglas; a pansy-eyed child star named Donna Corcoran as the devout orphan, and Ellen Corby as a nun who knows baseball like a book...