Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outlaw Slums...
...southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned outlaw first (so it was said) when he was falsely accused of attempted murder. Two years later, he escaped from jail, and for the next three years conducted his own roughhewn version of justice...
...Littlest Outlaw (Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...
...next two years. Last week O'Neil climaxed the coup with a $12 million flourish. He sold two unreleased films, Jet Pilot and The Conqueror, back to Howard Hughes himself for $8,000,000 cash and about $4,000,000 in future payments. (Hughes also bought back The Outlaw, for an additional undisclosed sum.) Teleradio thus emerges with a virtually assured cash profit of $2,200,000 on its investment in barely half a year. Since it has sold nothing but films, it has, in effect, got the RKO studios and distribution system for nothing...
Collins fought to outlaw slot machines, for higher state taxes on dog-track gambling, for higher educational standards and better mosquito control to hold down that old Southern malady, malaria. "I can hardly remember a summer when I wasn't sick with the chills and fever of malaria," Collins said last week. "I used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have...