Word: reel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course, J. Edgar Hoover's man Jones has an allergy to felines. He sneezes a lot as D.C. leads everyone a hairy chase over fences, under bushes, and through one hilarious mixup at 'a drive-in movie, cleverly avoiding the crooks' hideout until the very last reel. Meanwhile, eccentric comedy bits are supplied by Roddy McDowall, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester and gravel-throated Iris Adrian...
...nightclubs and taking home more than a memory of an evening's performance. The most popular battery-powered recorder being used is the $375 German-made Uher 4000, which is not much bigger than a cigar box. It can record up to three hours of music on one reel of tape with surprisingly good quality. The 16-in. "dynamic telemicrophone" costs another $395, but is guaranteed to provide "near-professional sound" from the most distant balcony...
Soon they are all allegory-bound on horseback-killing each other, losing their horses and themselves, exchanging long looks. "I have always had it in my mind to do a silent picture," says Director Bourguignon, "and this one is two-thirds silent. The last reel is practically without dialogue...
...Paul Bern (Peter Lawford). After his suicide, poor Jean plunges into moral decay, and eventually wanders off alone to the beach in a slinky black formal, as good a way as any to catch a fatal cold. Since its script has already succumbed to silliness back in the first reel, the latest filmflam Harlow will be mourned...
Mundus also has a 3,500-lb. white to his credit (again harpooned), plus a hand in 15 rod-and-reel records that range from a 66-lb. porbeagle caught on 12-lb.-test line to a 683-lb. 12-oz. mako caught on 50-lb. test. To catch a shark, he says, first catch a whale...