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