Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left, said Shaw soothingly, and besides, the Bible was "not a book but a literature; and like all literature it contains not only wise doctrine and inspired poetry, drama and edifying fiction, but is mischievous and su- Sir Thomas himself was conducting an orchestra at 10. perstitious. . . . Until the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, you will search the Scriptures in vain...
...Railway King" teamed up with great technicians like George Stephenson, spread arteries of iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
Louis B. Mayer was anxious to sign him up for a seven-year contract. Darryl Zanuck was eager to trust him with the leading role in a $3,000,000 production (Keys of the Kingdom), regardless of the fact that Peck was unknown and unwilling even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services...
King's Kingdom. There was gunplay aplenty in the days of Captain Richard King, the ranch's founder, a dark, curly-headed man with drive, empire-building dreams and merry generosity. Richard King, an Irishman's son, worked as a jeweler's apprentice in Orange County, N.Y., didn't like it and stowed away on a ship. He found seafaring more to his taste, and before many years was running a steamboat on the Rio Grande. During the war with Mexico he laid by a nest egg hauling supplies by boat to General Zachary Taylor...
...Hope. This movie has quite a lot of Hope, in fact, but rather less life than his admirers have reason to hope for. Bob is a disc jockey for dog food (with appropriate yips) who is sought out as the morganatic heir to a Graustarkian throne. Signe Hasso, the kingdom's military genius despite her sex, is trying to get him crowned; an assortment of statesmanlike heavies (George Zucco, et al.) are trying to get him conked; his fiancée, and her six policemen brothers are trying to get him to his wedding...