Word: nabobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood is in the dreadful predicament of a pauperized nabob suddenly reduced to four limousines. Oldtimers are telling newtimers that the town has never been so scared. Chief apparent reason: the new "confiscatory" British tax, which would rob Hollywood of its comfortable profit margin (TIME...
...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...
Interloper. Meanwhile, coony oldtime Producer Sol Wurtzel, formerly 20th Century-Fox's nabob of the Bs, had an idea. Long ago he realized that what he lacked in high budgets and Washington connections could be made up in speed. He has already completed, for Fox release, a Nazi spy chase called Rendezvous 24. While not strictly an atom-bomb picture, it deals with German scientists who tried to blow up Paris by radio-controlled atomic energy. It may conceivably pass, in the sticks, for the veritable atomic gospel...
...young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch and scorn, and the elderly, harmless-seeming nabob is in savagely at the climactic kill. The hyperpituitary ex-convict, incidentally, finds his lost lovely at last...
...North Atlantic. Canada's is a small-ship Navy, greater in numbers than in gunpower: 20 destroyers, 45 frigates, 100 corvettes, 60 minesweepers, Macdonald said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher and Nabob, but last week Britain was rigging two cruisers to go to Canada's Navy as gifts. Fifty smaller ships were building at home in Dominion yards...