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Workers in the yards of the Osaka Shipbuilding Co. intently watched the initial trials of one of the most curious craft ever launched. Floating in the lee of two massive unfinished cargo ships, the contraption was shaped like a midget's pagoda with a giant's spoon balanced across the pinnacle. On cue, a small motor inside the bright yellow and white plywood superstructure began pumping sea water into the bowl of the spoon. As the bowl filled, it dipped down until, with a splash, it dumped 26 gallons of water back into the bay. Empty, the lightened...
...baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina) was once the petite amie of gunrunners. Along the trek she cuts one midget ex-associate dead by blithely plunging scissors into his neck; eventually she runs off with another smuggler. Ferdinand finds the violence catching and, in an explosive finale, he erases all points of the triangle...
...only midget to ever play major league baseball? For whom did he play...
...Wellman, 53, entered the S&L field after graduating from the University of Southern California law school in 1940. He learned the business at Coast Federal Savings, an aggressive competitor for consumers' savings, and made his mark by helping Glendale Federal S&L grow from a $23 million midget to a $450 million leader in its industry. He quit as president of Glendale Federal in 1962 over policy disputes with the association's founder-chairman, but within hours was hired as president of Los Angeles' First Charter Financial Corp., now the nation's largest publicly owned...
Freaks is witless. Sensitive acting by the midget Frieda (whom Browning often shoots in romantic soft-focus closeup) and several shots in the climactic sequence, are the film's only twitches of life...