Word: reelingly
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...beaten out of him, Peck recollects a top secret potent enough to neutralize radioactive fallout but not enough to keep a provocative movie from heading toward a mundane and faintly preposterous conclusion. Getting there is all the fun, but no one wants to find that out during the last reel of a thriller...
Peppard plods heroically along, becomes the trusted aide of the mastermind behind the V-2 program-a character not unlike Wernher von Braun -and is all set for a preposterous last-reel countdown. He shoots it out with the Gestapo, slaughters scores of guards, finally pulls the switch that opens the doors that let out the light that serves as a signal to Allied planes. The bombardiers drop in their eggs just in time to abort an intercontinental missile called "the New York rocket," lifting off for parts unknown. In fact, Germany's underground rocket factory was never bombed...
...knobs and dials that controlled everything from the air conditioning of the astronauts' space suits to the most delicate computer computations necessary for the mission. Everything was there in carefully planned, expensive detail; there was even a little mechanical pencil dangling by a chain from a spring-loaded reel. Price of one pencil...
...Feet Tall, handicapped by a title that suggests a doggedly inspirational outing for the very young, offers more enchantment per reel than most movies of twice its ambitions. This fresh, crackling and suspenseful African adventure story gives top billing to Veteran Edward G. Robinson, who bolsters the fun with his strongest performance in years...
...Products, Rock Hudson awaits a promotion to head the firm's European office at $200,000 per annum. "All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel. Of course, Rock has a demiwife (Gina Lollobrigida) ready at hand in London. But Gina is neither respectable nor reasonable. She is a chichi freethinker, addicted to protest marches and The Arts. Rock had been splattered with so much paint and pizza that they declared a cease-fire seven years...