Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss." Minneapolis was a wide-open town. At least 50 brothels were running full blast, afterhours, liquor joints flourished, local mobsters were riding high. Almost every corner cigar store had its betting books, its hooligan and "14" games (dice) or "66"(punchboards...
...fair-skinned, brown-eyed young fellow, listed himself as a white man. Last year, after he got out of the service, he went to Roanoke, Va., married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...
...Eighty-year-old Scott Pillsbury took advantage of mild weather at Scarborough, Me., hurried to a public cemetery to dig his grave before the ground froze. He explained that he expected to die soon, and disapproved of the local custom of storing bodies through winter months and burying them in the spring...
...Wives (20th Cenury-Fox) is a bright, unusual comedy that sets itself some high hurdles and clears them all-mostly with room to spare. The picture begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor...
...Radio Pictures, Inc. informed the HLU Film Series committee that its showings were competing with local theaters. Therefore they will not release "The Informer" and "Room Service" for local 16mm projection...