Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendly natives, later drank the contents of the plane's radiator. On several occasions they plodded miles to what they thought was a signal fire, arrived exhausted to find an unattended bush fire. They "caught lizards on the rocks, which we ate raven ously." They fashioned a raft from one of their seaplane floats, paddled for five days in a rough sea, saw a steamer pass within a mile of them. Hunger drove them again ashore, to feed on snails and leaves. On the 38th day "to our great excitement we sighted a black, who brought a large fish...
...Complication is injected when the band leader (Jack Oakie), long a friend of Collier, tries to break up the union. Action is kept at a swift pace by lust, robbery, off-stage murder and, finally, the shooting of Oakie by a gun-toting habitue of the dance hall (George Raft). Good shot: Miss Hopkins, eyes half shut, singing "St. Louis Blues'' while the ten-centers wiggle according to dance hall form...
...with the League of Nations to take his wife and two sons on a pleasure cruise in an airliner. Over the Atlantic the airship runs into a frightful storm. Just in time the Robinsons abandon the crippled ship, are whipped away into the night on an air-raft. They come safely to rest on the mooring mast of the Empire State Building, still unfinished, which at first they take to be some kind of gigantic tree. Father Robinson makes several exploratory trips down into the seething jungle below, gradually comes to the conclusion the place is civilized. He loses...
...been telescoped, but most of the best ones are left -Tom showing off for Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn and Joe Harper are in on the secret that Injun Joe and not old Muff Potter killed the doctor; playing pirate on a raft; coming to his own funeral. John Cromwell's direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot is Huck Finn (Junior Durkin) who has been edged almost out of the story because a separate picture about him is going to be made soon. Best technical shot: speech used...
...Rain-flooded creeks rose menacingly around Smackover last week, did a million dollars dam age to surrounding oil fields. Its city hall be came relief headquarters. Measles developed in its refugee camp. A woman bore a child while floating downstream on a raft. The Red river raged with high water. An Arkansas tornado snorted through Elaine, left 17 dead behind...