Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strapped that they can no longer get credit at the country store. A Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl off her place. Alter the usual to-do Will makes a stand, marries Joanna, turns the plantation from cotton to tobacco and reaps a new fortune. Tight-laced Mrs. Connelly is last seen smoking a cigaret...
...integral part of the story, Lionel Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran, full of pride, a musty love affair and corn whiskey. Best shot: Barrymore, under the delusion that he is again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to shoot himself dead in the back yard. Silliest shot: a ball at Connelly Hall immediately after the First Battle of Bull Run attended by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson and Beauregard...
...took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots, shot pool, went with whores, drank rotgut, occasionally made his confession. In his weaker moments Studs sometimes asked himself what the hell it was all about, even fell in love with a nice girl. But the nice girl married somebody else and Studs's musings never came to anything. By & large he was well content to be one of the boys and proud of his reputation as a hard guy. Then the neighborhood began to lose caste with...
...Nobel Prize Committee could have made many a worse choice. An unreconstructed rebel against the Soviets, Author Bunin left Russia some 16 years ago, lives an exile's life at Grasse, France. The Well of Days tells the story of his quiet youth in the country he loves and thinks he will never see again. As in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the names of people and places are changed, but the thin disguise is not intended to deceive. A nonpolitical novelist, Bunin is out of step with his countrymen but beats no rival...
Otto Kruger, as a talented criminal lawyer, has numerous affairs with women, always, however, with an indifferent attitude, for he still loves his wife who had left him many years before. A young girl comes to his office to ask him to defend her father, being tried for the murder of her step-mother. "He's innocent. Step-mother ran around lots, but pa did not mind. . . . He's an old and innocent man." When Otto Kruger sees the picture of the lady in question, he gurgles rudely, and then orders the girl and his junior partner to leave...