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Word: pecked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held up at all its corners. Robert Preston is just right as the boy-man who takes his heartless wife to Africa to hunt big game and changes in two days from a coward to a courageous man. As the wife and the professional hunter, Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck could hardly draw criticism from even the author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war of the sexes, in which Robert Preston is bested by Joan Bennett, with the aid of Gregory Peck, a lion and several buffaloes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage sex war, in which Robert Preston is bested by Joan Bennett, with the aid of Gregory Peck, a lion and several buffaloes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...three are hunting big game in Africa, the pressures are primitive, and considerable. Macomber (Robert Preston) is a good shot but he lacks courage in a crisis and the sportsman's sense of honor towards his quarry. Besides, he talks too much about himself. The hunter (Gregory Peck), on the other hand, is everything a Hemingway hero should be. Mrs. Macomber (Joan Bennett) is not slow to choose between them nor delicate in showing her preference-in several almost unbearably ugly scenes of cruelty and humiliation. Under the pressures, Macomber finds his courage for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman support Claude Jarman Jr. and a fawn in a touching, lush-colored story of backwoods boyhood (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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