Word: luring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principals of The Quiet Man may not lure travelers to Ireland, but the scenery certainly will. The Technicolor countryside ought to make any tourist skip the Loire and travel west from Southampton instead...
...modern times there have been only two relatively unexplored regions in the entire world to tempt those of exploring bent-Antarctica and central Brazil. Antarctica, having no lure for industry except for deposits of a luckily poor variety of coal, should remain safe from the horrors of civilization in the foreseeable future. The jungle, it seems, will not be so fortunate...
...Lure of the Wilderness (20th Century-Fox) is a title presumably meant to describe Jean Peters, a shapely swamp girl who runs around Georgia's Okefenokee mudflats dressed in tight-fitting buckskin shirt and trousers and armed with a bow & arrow. Jean lives in the swamp with her father (Walter Brennan), who has been hiding out from the law for eight years because he once killed a man in self-defense. One day a handsome youth (Jeffrey Hunter) ventures into the Okefenokee to search for his missing dog, and stumbles on Jean. What is this strange, perplexing passion that...
...Lure of the Wilderness has some colorful shots of the Okefenokee scenery and the swamp's crocodiles, snakes, owls, bears and boars. Among the human actors, the one who seems most at home in the swamp is Walter Brennan, in a repeat of his role in the 1941 Swamp Water, of which Lure of the Wilderness is a rather soggy remake...
...moral frazzle. The skipper's problem, which is meant to symbolize the problem of the whole war generation, is to escape "the terrible pull of the dead." The pull drags the captain down to the ocean bottom quite literally, as a deep-sea diver, and there the lure of death almost claims his spirit. But at last a sensible miss hauls him up again, buffs the dull film of mysticism from his uniform buttons, and restores him to life-in this case, another tugboat...