Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up Rich's Oscar after someone claiming he was Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought a "five-or six-page treatment" of the story. Where is Rich now? "In Europe," retorts King. "I'm looking...
...Brave One works a slim and simple fable about a boy and a pet bull in Mexico into a lovely and suspenseful film. Director Irving Rappe manages to conceal the obvious contrivances in his plot and setting, which depicts the most opulent peasant life imaginable...
...horse. When he needed a steam roller as a cartoon symbol, the city council obligingly had one driven under the windows of his studio. An admirer also presented him with a stuffed lion. Low gave it away later, having already decided that the "Olympian pet-shop" of national symbols was not good enough for a real cartoonist...
...classical reference, the New York Times demanded: "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?" In characteristically unclassical American, the tabloid New York Daily News asked: "What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy other than, in a kiddie-sized pet, dump rusty boats and assorted kitchen stoves into the Suez Canal?" The fact was that no happy solution could be seen emerging in the Middle East. In the anger of frustration, voices in Europe and America demanded that...
...rest of this little picture, which despite a clumsy production is probably going to flood the Easter Bunny with zillions of requests for baby bulls, describes the fantastic things the boy does to save the life of his pet. Nevertheless, the moviemakers have seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...