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Word: pecked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rich version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...pulp-western plot, decked out in flamboyant, operatic finery, is set in late 19th Century Texas. The evil old cattle baron (Lionel Barrymore) lives in a pretty ranch house with his good wife (Lillian Gish), one good son (Joseph Gotten) and one very bad son (Gregory Peck). When the railroad (civilization) tries to encroach on Barrymore's rangeland, all hell breaks loose in the form of rip-roaring gunplay, overheated histrionics, and the tattoo of hoofbeats across gorgeously tinted landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...poor second to Sex (Jennifer Jones). Jennifer is the half-breed Indian girl who works on the Barrymore ranch. She is mildly mystified by the pure love that good Joe Gotten offers her. But her savage blood beats a wild response to the dishonorable advances of that fascinating rascal, Peck. She tries ever so desperately to resist the bad man. She tries - and fails provocatively, in a low-cut bodice - first in the ranch house, and again on the rush-fringed riverbank, and several times in her own dimly lighted bunkhouse, and. even as she is dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks in Florida (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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