Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobbing Flotsam. Drifting, drinking rain water, munching the hard candy which was all they had saved from their emergency rations, the survivors spent a second sleepless night. Colonel Grable caught a two-foot yellowtail, but lost it before he could bring it aboard. One raft overturned twice; all but two flares were lost and the emergency radio would no longer work. Overhead, the men still heard the sound of crisscrossing search planes, twice sighted ships but were unable to attract the attention of the searchers...
...individual skits are very well done. W. C. Fields manages to wreak vengeance on road-bogs at large for the wrecking of his hard-earned flivver by a member of their clan. He manages to destroy five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...
...Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...
Johnny Allegro (Columbia). For years, Hollywood has been concocting improbable scripts for the minor talents of George Raft. This one, more bizarre than most, casts him as a florist who becomes the target for a bow & arrow killer...
...Raft, whose natural deadpan registers not the slightest difference between one script and the next, takes these exotic frills in his usual dapper stride. He seems happy puttering about among his orchids and potted petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine...