Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chuck Connors Wallace Beery Steve Brodie George Raft Lucy Calhoun Fay Wray Swipes McGurk Jackie Cooper...
...energy with which President Lowell goes about filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans...
...with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...
...witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema hero of the year. He gathers Temple in his arms, tells her stupid father they should both be proud of her. In the part that George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried...
...light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary. "Did Robert have a good word...