Word: prop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
British planemakers, already well ahead of the U.S. in commercial jet transports, are even farther ahead in turbo-prop planes (propellers driven by gas turbines). They have several test planes flying while the U.S. has none, although airmen expect the turboprops to be the short-range plane of the future as well as the intermediate aircraft between current reciprocating-engine planes and jet liners. Last week General Motors announced that it was finally putting the U.S. into the race to develop a turbo-prop transport...
...Siodmak builds tension in some of the courtroom scenes, e.g., when the morbidly curious camera paces Barbara from a cell in the county jail, across a crowded street and up three flights of courthouse stairs to hear the jury's verdict. But taut detail is not enough to prop up the essential fudge-and-marshmallow of character and concept...
Would Director De Sica help? Well, he would give Maggiorani a job as a prop man in his next movie. "I don't think he has any future as an actor," De Sica said, "except occasionally in workmen's roles . . . I think he should go on with his regular...
Born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne broke into the movies as a prop man, graduated to cowboy actor when Director John Ford took a shine to him. Through most of the '30s, he made quickie westerns so fast that he "practically had to sleep on a horse." In 1939 Director Ford came to the rescue with a leading role in Stagecoach. After that, Wayne's career went ahead at full gallop...