Word: lusciousness
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...injected just after a particularly grim section when a drunkard who has been picked up by the troupe dies in their carriage. Nothing in the film, however, is quite so enjoyable as the uninterrupted bucolic clowning during the seduction of the inexperienced, yet swaggering coachman by the luscious maid (delightfully done, as could be expected, by Bibi Andersson...
...certain characteristics common to each succeeding story. These essential ingredients are, in random order: the daring under-world leader, known to one and all as a "real friend," his faithful but careless partner who consorts with loose-tongued women, a rival gang that never plays fair, an array of luscious showgirls, half-naked or otherwise, a huge bundle of stolen money that both sides are after, and various lesser mobsters that are always either being tortured or getting killed. This formula is slightly varied for each production, but the denouement is always the same; almost everyone dies violently...
They marry, they quarrel, the plot commences: Vidal seeks solace with a luscious dancing teacher (Dawn Addams) who levers him into a compromising position. Then, as she tries to blackmail him with pictures, she is murdered. Did Vidal do it? Brigitte believes not, and loyally bounces about Paris trying to catch the real felon before the law puts the arm on her husband...
...casually requested 250 "chaste teen-agers," she soon had a string of buses rolling toward Manhattan from a Catholic girls' school in Trenton, NJ. "I want a dozen brunettes," said Kazan another time. "And I want each one of them to be so luscious that without saying a word, you just know that . . ." She was also ready with blondes when Kazan changed his mind...
...sales charts, things went swimmingly. Thanks largely to Esther Williams' name and luscious presence (she traveled 200,000 miles promoting the pools last year), sales climbed from $500,000 through 50 distributors in 1956 to more than $9,000,000 with 762 distributors in 1959. But last December, International voluntarily filed an insolvency statement with a U.S. district court in New York, obtained permission to stay in business while it negotiated with its creditors. The obvious question: Why had profits failed to keep pace with soaring sales? Other swimming-pool makers thought it was largely due to poor management...