Word: lancasterism
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The Rose Tattoo (Hal Wallis; Paramount), like the Tennessee Williams play from which it is adapted, is less a show, in a dramatic sense, than a sideshow-a gatherum of Pitchman Williams' less peculiar freaks. The principal exhibit is Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani), a hearty peasant wench transplanted...
Supercharger. In Lancaster, Ohio, Robert Lewis, 27, lost the keys to his car, fetched a length of wire from the garage to get his engine started, learned while recovering from burns in the Lancaster Hospital that he had picked out a fuse wire with a dynamite cap on it.
He did not have to look far. In 1879 F. W. Woolworth had founded the country's first five & ten, in Lancaster, Pa.
The year is 1820. A boy (Donald McDonald) and his father (Burt Lancaster) set their feet on the long way west from Kentucky to Texas. First town they come to, Paw gets himself in trouble with the sheriff and lands in the local stockade, but a bondslave (Dianne Foster), who...
The good script, moreover, has had good direction, and the credit goes to Actor Lancaster. In his first attempt to run a whole show, he demonstrates a refreshing preference for natural setting-many a western looks as if it was shot on the back lot of a drive-in barbecue...