Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drama of Manhattan speakeasy days. Producer Jed Harris, co-author Philip Dunning, co-author-director George Abbott rode it to a standstill: at one time eight road companies were playing to standing room only. Now it is a worn period piece. The story, about a small-time hoofer (George Raft) and his partner (Janet Blair) and their hope of getting out of nightclubs into the big time, has been turned into a personal vehicle for Cinemactor Raft. He plays himself (a Holly-wood star) under his own name...
...Broadway from his Pacific Coast success, he and his picture dissolve back to the time when he was a Broadway hoofer, and Broadway begins. But its star, who is constitutionally unable to play the simple, naive vaudevillian the original role called for, substitutes the life-&-times of George Raft. They are unco dull...
...often that a picture comes along which manages both to amuse, and unobtrusively to make a point. Yet "The Male Animal," still fresh after a long battering on Broadway and the stage of summer stock, does it well. Carrying as props a raft of gorgeous co-eds and not-so-good-looking All Americans, the picture ranges from the last minute football thrills of a Frank Merriwell to the questionable propriety of Hot Garters, the other woman. Henry Fonda, the midwestern professor with a home life, ranks as a growing threat to Jimmy Stewart's laurels as the homespun American...
...life raft bumping the waves of the Windward Passage near Haiti looked no bigger than a cork when the Catalina patrol plane first sighted it; but when Ensign Francis E. Pinter eased his ship down to 200 ft., he could make out 17 people crowded upon it. To attempt a landing in such a choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore...
...rough sea it was impossible to taxi alongside, so he moved up windward, drifted down on the raft. The 16 men and a woman on the raft were weak after 60 hours at sea without food or water. Distributing them aboard a Catalina built to accommodate only its crew took a lot of doing. Some were stowed in the bombing compartment, one on the deck between the pilots' seats; the woman was put in a bunk...