Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three dimensions does not necessarily have depth; A Lion is in the Streets demonstrates that a picture in Technicolor is not necessarily colorful. In fact, in every respect bur one, this film is drab and pale. The exception is James Cagney's portrayal of Hank Martin, the ambitious backwoods peddler who almost "lynched a whole state." Against the rest of the film, Martin stands out like a Lutree potrait superimposed on a black-and-white pencil sketch...
...Lion Is in the Streets (William Cagney; Warner) follows the jaunty rise of Jimmy Cagney from a backwoods peddler of kitchenware to his near triumph as a statewide peddler of political buncombe...
First Things First. In Houston, sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $10 fine, Marijuana Peddler John Hernandez barely flinched, but asked: "When do I have to pay the fine...
...opens in a stiff-backed summer camp at Brunswick, Me. (in the original, the scene was Thebes), where a young matron named Eurydice Orpheus is shamelessly cuckolding her husband, a struggling violinist. Her lover: one John Stick, a dull poet. Enter Pluto, in the guise of a soft-drink peddler, who offers the lovers a permanent visit to Hades. Sample of his spiel...
...owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage for food, he took refuge from oncoming winter in a deserted shanty, starved to death standing up, leaning against the shanty...