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...Magnificent Dope (20th Century-Fox) is home-grown Henry Fonda, playing another "Shucks, Ma!" role, which permits him to make one very interesting observation: laziness is the father of invention. His reasoning: In Piltdown days, thirsty cavemen had to run to the river for a drink, scurry back to their caves again. Go-getters didn't mind that chore, but some lazy caveman did. He invented the bucket...
This well-pastried pie of sense and nonsense is ably dished out by Protagonists Fonda and de Havilland. Co-Author Nugent, who directed, fails to reduce it from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...
...Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer on any DeMille set, DeMille is usually patient, sometimes disconcerting. When two minor Union Pacific actors began an argument as to which should laugh louder in a scene, DeMille startled them by screaming: "Jumping Piltdown elephants! Let's not make an epic out of two grunts...
...connections with Peking Man, the orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...
Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man), of broad forehead, thick bones, human brain case and apelike teeth, who lived in Sussex, England in the early Pleistocene days. Rambling Lawyer Charles Dawson discovered the Piltdown remains...