Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evanston (Ill.) Township High School has 83 seniors in college-level history, English, mathematics, French and Spanish. "After a taste of one or two of the courses," says Superintendent Lloyd S. Michael, "some of the students have told me: 'If college is anything like this, I can hardly wait...
...plot concerns two detectives assigned to guard Joan at a seaside hotel during her 24-hour release from the penitentiary in order to give information to the district attorney about her recently murdered gangster lover. Both detectives are on the gangsters' payroll, but one of them (Lloyd Bridges) falls in love with the girl. The other (James Gregory) is determined to kill her. With this suspenseful situation established in the first five minutes, Playwright Kantor then all but ignores it until the final curtain when the relatively good detective disarms the completely bad one in a technically skillful stage...
...long interval between is filled with an uninspired but dogged probing of the personalities involved. Kantor's wordy persistence is partially rewarded. Joan Lorring emerges as an earnest simpleton who so yearns for freedom that she risks her life in return for a brief holiday from jail. Lloyd Bridges painfully grows in stature from a conniving cop to a man ready to count his world well lost for love. But, as often happens in the theater, it is Villain Gregory with his unrepentant, double-dealing philosophy who comes most alive on the stage: the only unconvincing note...
...Robe. The first CinemaScope film, a colorful, breathtakingly big production based on Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 bestseller, starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons (TIME, Sept...
...Robe,* Lloyd C. Douglas Désirée, Annemarie Selinko The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain Battle Cry, Leon Uris From Here to Eternity* James Jones Beyond This Place, A. J. Cronin