Word: ramrodded
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...Ramrod (United Artists) is a pretty, mildly sluggish western about a very bad woman (Veronica Lake), a very good one (Arleen Whelan), a good man (Joel McCrea) and a rat (Preston Foster). The main problems: 1) Will Miss Lake prevail against her father (Charles Ruggles), Foster and his hard guys, in her determination to graze her cattle on land they forbid her? and 2) Which girl will ultimately throw and brand McCrea...
...landscapes and shacks have a remoteness seldom appreciated in films; it has even occurred to someone that the noise of blowing leaves is pleasant. Such careful details help bring the audience deeper into the country. Ramrod is decently made, nice to look at, and at times exciting. Unluckily the story is long, complicated and not, on the whole, worth the care that has been lavished...
...even more incongruous in the light of the supposed power of the Watch and Ward in its fight against the spread of obscenity. Happy to take up the scent and go bugling off after a book like "Strange Fruit," or inflexible in their command that a singer stand ramrod stiff during a rendition of "A Huggin' an' A Chalkin'," they remain helpless while the newspapers go into a detailed analysis of the intricacies of an assault. However loud the moral societies complain about the quality of the Boston newspapers, they find that the city editors are too powerful for them...
Adios! The man charged with cutting this new pattern for the oil industry bears a stamp new to Mexican politics. When sad-eyed, ramrod-backed Antonio Bermúdez was treasurer of the state of Chihuahua, an acquaintance went to him and said: "Antonio, my friend, I want to import several carloads of alcohol from the U.S., and if I pay taxes on it it will be very expensive. . . ." Bermúdez usually low-pitched voice rose to a roar: "If I invite you to my house for dinner then you can call me Antonio and call me your friend...
...been billed as "Governor's Day," which would mean that it was in honor of handsome, white-haired Governor Dwight H. Green. But everybody in the grandstand had come to see bristling, ramrod-stiff Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, editor-publisher of the arch-nationalist Chicago Tribune. This was Bertie McCormick's day. Bertie was making his debut as unofficial commander of Illinois Republicans...