Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion (Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...
...story had a terrible and familiar ring. Her sister and her own husband were killed by the Nazis; her brother-in-law disappeared into the Russian army. Ava was sent to the concentration camp at Lemberg, put to sorting the clothing of surplus human beings eliminated by the Germans. Out of one heap came her mother's garments and Ava knew that she was dead. One morning Ava put on a dead man's suit, walked out of the camp with a construction gang and escaped...
...does each year at the Spring Festivals, a beauty queen last week took up her reign in Mexico City. Titian-haired Luz del Carmen ("Moy") Otero rode into the bullfight ring at the head of a 16-car cavalcade, presided at horse races, and went to a ball every night. Moy had a fine time and so did her father, suave General Ignacio Otero, commandant of the First Military Zone. Moy owed it all to Daddy...
When the act ended, the Temple of Thebes shot 'way up into the air, and down came the market-place. It was just like shooting a bullet at the sky and having a ring-tailed pheasant come down instead...
...Better or Worse. In Chicago, Mrs. Adeline C. Bryzek agreed to a reconciliation with her husband after he had promised to 1) wear a wedding ring at all times, 2) stop lending money to his relatives, 3) take her along whenever he goes fishing...