Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That "Heavenly Days" was among the movies banned under the ridiculous Servicemen's Voting Law last summer may mislead some people into seeing it. Hawkshaws may want to try their abilities and look for something politically controversial in it, but most will find it flimsy, stereotyped corn.
"Hall the Conquering Hero" packs a punch. The theme of the picture is patriotism. Against this, Sturges plays love, plain and simple. The conflict of these forces within the protagonist, Eddie Bracken, generously spiced with ridiculous situations and hilarious horseplay, forms the basis of the plot.
Says he: "I will say that Charlie's per sonality is as opposite from mine as .it can be, and -that I envy him. T wish" I could walk into a room like Charlie. . . . To me it's quite remarkable that this carved piece of wood . . . should be...
Visitors who flocked to see the now famous author were usually shocked by what they saw. "His appearance was very forbidding," said his stepdaughter, Lucy; "his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye . . '. the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible ... he often had convulsive starts and...
Cried Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan: Ridiculous! Patterson can dish it out but he can't take it.