Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brains." Fred's durability as a comedian has not depended solely on the obvious externals of slapstick. His voice, to be sure, sounds as if it might be filing his teeth down as it issues from his spigot mouth. And his face ("the sharpest knife," says Ludwig Bemelmans, "I have ever seen") is rather like a very large red pear that the ants have been at. Fred Allen has other gifts as well. John Steinbeck considers him "unquestionably the best humorist of our time ... a brilliant critic of manners and morals." Jack Benny, his private friend and public enemy...
...whom inevitably turns out to be Peter Lorre. Tossing gags to the winds, Hope spends the greater part of the picture chasing Dorothy Lamour, who plays a foreign baroness of some kind, though she seems to lose her accent after the first reel. Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison, as the two principals frantically pursue a little map locating a fabulous deposit of uranium ore, a substance which seems to have supplanted buried treasure in the cinema palaces these days...
Headed for Trouble. In Portland, Ore., Marie Montoya topped off her hairdo with a paring knife, got arrested for carrying a concealed weapon...
Breaking Point. In Kokomo, Ind., a divorce was granted to Albert L. Franklin, who testified that he didn't mind so much when his wife threatened him with a knife and beat up his mother, but felt that she went too far when she stole four of his pet rabbits...
Easy Snapping. For the cameraman, there's no trick to it. He snaps the picture, pulls the film out of the camera, tears it off against a built-in knife edge. A sheet of special paper comes plastered against the face of the film. After 50 seconds it can be peeled away: a finished positive print, only faintly damp...