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...catastrophe sequence comes when Irene and Dumond, hearing an innocent man has been arrested for Dumond's supposed crime, start back to Paris on a Vail liner making its maiden voyage. To imperil them. Tycoon Vail phones his captain to strive for a record crossing, in spite of pea-soup fog and icebergs. The disaster, supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through...
...worked on his father's 600-acre Illinois farm in the summer, in winter taught school. After his conversion he left home from time to time to preach the new gospel. On one of these sallies he heard of a pious and nubile maiden named Sarah Pea, straightway sat down and wrote her a sober proposal of marriage. Like a good girl, Sarah shut her eyes, opened her Bible, stabbed with her finger. On the strength of the text her finger touched, she wrote him an enthusiastically respectful assent. Two weeks later they met, in four months hey were...
...still an almost ideal vehicle for its bulb-nosed star. As Professor Eustace McGargle, broken down carnival spieler accompanied by his docile & devoted ward (Rochelle Hudson), he wanders into a village tent show, bulldozes the proprietor into giving him a concession, teaches yokels the intricacies of the pea & shell game, palms off his ward as heiress to the town's biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields has had time to execute several of his most celebrated routines. He gets tangled up with a croquet set, makes...
...looks as if the natives are backsliding, but when Sleuth Lynch finds three dead flies under a dead man's face, he naturally dismisses that possibility. Altogether five victims bite the dust, a giant clam bites the hero, before Author Vandercook lifts the last shell, displays the elusive pea...
...failed as a parish priest because he could not bear to go near a sick or suffering person. At the monastery he did better. Breeders already knew that the characteristics of offspring were not simple mixtures of parental features, but they did not know why. Working with garden peas, Mendel found that when he crossed a tall pea with a dwarf, all the first generation were tall. In the second generation (self-fertilized) there were three times as many tall plants as dwarfs, and none of intermediate stature. From this and a mass of other results which made sense when...