Word: quirt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild Harvest (Paramount) revives the once profitable Quirt-Flagg* formula: two high-skilled bums carom around odd corners of the world, working at the same jobs, tomcatting after the same girls, fighting each other, and unable to do without each other. Wild Harvest adds something new to the formula: this time the heroes are migratory workers, involved in the robust job of wheat harvesting with combines. The harvesting job gives the audience something novel and vigorous to look at, and it also gives the players something better to do than talk and make faces at each other. But there...
...Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg, head men in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? (1926), launched a series of movies that continued through the '30s. * 440 turned...
Expressionists, Abstractionists. The work of Kootz's own modern favorites is derived from the "expressionists [who] use the psychology of color ... to express a moody, mystic Weltschmerz." He singles out Abraham Rattner, Walter Quirt, Paul Burlin. Of Rattner (see cut), he remarks...
...late great original Quirt & Flagg, William Boyd & Louis Wolheim ("Sez you. Sez me."), the theme of the new show would seem strange. The old glory-debunking note of What Price Glory? is missing. Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg join up again, proceed immediately to get in Dutch by avidly pursuing their general's wife. Typical dialogue: "Lady, if I was to know every girl who goes riding with me I could make a fortune selling it to Sears, Roebuck as a mailing list...
Medbury's Quirt & Flagg script is not so yeasty as the famed Anderson-Stallings' play, although plenty tough for radio. But the show is designed to sell Mennen's shaving cream, and Author Medbury doesn't have to worry about feminine outcries, except from bearded ladies...