Word: pug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second round, Charles went down under two looping rights and a left. In the $40 ringside seats at Yankee Stadium, the well-heeled fight mob howled for blood. "Don't kill him so quick. Rocky," begged an ex-pug, his fists doubled. "Cut him up first!" Charles was up at the count of two. With some of his old. dancing skill, the ex-champion rode out the round...
...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
During World War II, pug-nosed, Australian-born Stanley ("Davo") Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...
...River Street (United Artists) retells the surefire old story of the worm who turns. Cabdriver John Payne is an ex-pug who gets his first brass-knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before...
Keeping a firm grip on their squirming pug, Trooper, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor bantered merrily with newsmen aboard the S.S. United States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...