Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welter of ominous looking crooks, one of whom inevitably turns out to be Peter Lorre. Tossing gags to the winds, Hope spends the greater part of the picture chasing Dorothy Lamour, who plays a foreign baroness of some kind, though she seems to lose her accent after the first reel. Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison, as the two principals frantically pursue a little map locating a fabulous deposit of uranium ore, a substance which seems to have supplanted buried treasure in the cinema...
After Dolly's tribulations, the nation's problems rank first, and if James Madison discusses politics, it's only to create an impression that will lead to a clinch. Expressing doubts and fears for the nation's future. Meredith rushes into Miss Rogers' ample embrace, asserting reel after reel that you just can't mix business with pleasure...
...Mutt & Jeff or Polly and Her Pals. But the Chicago Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...
Niblo, a former football coach from Denver, was so sure of success that he started this week to teach the Virginia reel to a group of Nagasaki physical-education instructors. "After all," mused Niblo, "the average Japanese has nothing to do in the evening...
...with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright man of Mr. Garfield. After his redemption, a few of his still dishonest associates have to be disposed of in some last-reel gunplay...