Word: mexican-american
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Keeny had tried the wrenching, agonizing struggle to shake the habit once before, and had fled from a Texas cure center after two weeks. This time, with Reporter Larkin's encouragement, the little round-faced Mexican-American boy went to a boxers' training camp and fought himself back into shape. Last week, on the eve of his first comeback fight, the Mirror broke the story all over Page...
...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...
...movie also spars with the hero's problem as a Mexican-American whose hypersensitivity as a member of a minority group warps all his personal dealings. But it falls into the bad Hollywood habit of glimpsing truth only long enough to falsify it. Montalban's anxieties are magically dispelled by a happy ending as familiar as Boxing Promoter Lionel Barrymore 's grumpiness. Though Right Cross's ring scenes are pretty well staged, it is a boxing picture with too much yatata and not enough sock...
...spite of the warnings of fearful U.S. cattlemen, who wanted all cattle in the infected area destroyed, the new policy paid off. In 19 months mixed Mexican-American teams, criss-crossing the country in cream-colored trucks, vaccinated the 17 million cattle in the danger zone four times each (immunization lasts only for about four months). No outbreak of aftosa has been discovered since December 1949. This week the last sleek steer received his last injection...
...picture focuses sharply on a wise, fanatically conscientious doctor (Everett Sloane) and three patients: a well-educated cynic (Jack Webb), a horseplaying loafer (Richard Erdman) who enjoys his invalidism at Government expense, and a good-natured Mexican-American (Arthur Jurado)* who is trying to win his release so he can get a house for his mother and his six brothers and sisters. But the brunt of the story and its theme is carried by a sullen, embittered patient (Marlon Brando) and the girl (Teresa Wright) who wants to go through with the marriage they planned before...