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...young U.S. sportsman (Robert Stack) determines, almost as a lark, to learn how to handle the matador's fighting cape and sword. He persuades Mexico's leading bullfighter (Gilbert Roland) to teach him, falls in love with a high-born local girl (Joy Page) and then with the bulls. When Matador Roland dies in the ring while saving Stack's life, Stack, still an amateur, feels he must vindicate his honor and courage in the face of a hostile crowd and a raging bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Brave Bullfighters | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...naping"' begins as a summertime lark, soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

They describe her as "a Radcliffe girl who was just doing it as a lark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DA, Chief Plot Further Probe of 'Poon Parody | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

...EXTRA-MARITAL LARK (male & female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...quite get the angle yet. Maybe it was a lark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Get the Angle Yet? | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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