Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast in general is up to its great dramatic roles and Mabel Paige is particularly phoney and constantly intoxicated mother. It's well worth the price of admission. And, of yes, there's that exciting little sequence where Helen Walker pulls up her skirts to trap an evil-minded Nazi gunman...
...mysteriously murdered, and due to evident circumstances, Grant is suspected. Miss Fontaine is taken with fear of her husband, fear that he is a murderer and that she may be his next victim. She tries to flee from him, but he reaches her, and in the most depressingly "phoney" scene of the film, tells her the truth; that he is innocent. The ending to the original story, that the hero actually is the murderer, is replaced (to avoid jarring the public's emotions) by a happy Hollywood finale, which mildly cripples an otherwise magnificent motion picture...
...story involves a timid map-maker, Charles Butterworth, who comes home one day to find his whole family engaged in war work of one kind or another. Trying to keep in step, he gets pushed around mercilessly until he conceives the idea of trapping the Jap fleet with a phoney map of Shangri-La. After an interlude in a Jap internment camp done with extremely poor taste, the map is found to be genuine; but Papa saves the day by informing the U. S. forces of some nearby islands that would rise above water on the next...
...French programs by WRUL were begun during the "phoney war" of 1939. Tyler states, but it was not until the defeat of France that a team of six Harvard French instructors, including Howard C. Rice, Edward D. Sullivan, Robert J. Clements, George L Picard, William N. Locke, and Georges Dumontet, played one of the most important parts in the success of WRUL...
This is the logical climax of all those earlier isolationist judgments that began with Senator Borah's dictum: "This is a phoney...