Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aquatic love scene: "Maureen O'Hara playfully pushes John Payne into the water, dives in and a gay race ensues. Boy & Girl clamber onto the raft. . . . After they get tired laughing, he gives her a hard, intense, libidinous look and seals her mouth with a very long passionate kiss . . . so that the screenwriter won't have to think up any dialogue...
Christmas Eve (Boqeous; United Artists), a less appetizing holiday confection, concerns an eccentric old gotrocks (Ann Harding) and her far-flung adopted sons (George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott). They surmount the world, the flesh and the devil to reach her side on Christmas Eve-just in time to save her from the booby hatch for spending $500,000 on 500,000 dead rats. Producer Benedict Bogeaus spent considerably more on this dead...
...Arthur Rank and his band of studio radicals have long held that a noteworthy movie needs only a good story, not a raft of magenta sunsets, daring cleavages or rabid mobs. This conservatism, marking the difference between British efforts and their Hollywood counterparts, is displayed in "Tawny Pipit," and proves once again that the designation "rank" lauds as well as castigates. This story of a rare bird and its effects on the nearby town is consistently first-rate...
...fourth trip-with 16 aboard the raft-went badly. The raft was swamped; a motor launch which managed to get its people aboard was hit by a wave which killed its engine and all but swamped it, too. Captain Cronk took the Bibb over to the swamped launch. As passengers began to be washed out of it, seamen leaped into the water for them; others reached out from life nets over the cutter's side to haul them to safety...
...raft on which a group of scientists crossed the Pacific...