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...like thinking about such things, it's also a rip-snortin' adventure; I suspect the Joker is coming back in the next issue and I can't wait. Holy Breakthrough, Batman, I think...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...Nebraska 1888-election year, git the topicality? Grandpa composes a real rip-snortin' campaign song for Cleveland (Let's Put It Over with Grover) and every dang one of his relations accompanies him on a instrument. There's Mom (Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

With an ample budget to splurge on sets and costumes, with two fine leads and a capable supporting cast, Director James Whale has cooked up a rip-snortin' film paced and climaxed with plenty of gusto. Here's another case history to show that when moviedom is in command of its medium the result is grand entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...days of the silent film-all together they go to make up "Artists and Models Abroad." Of course the film makes no sense whatever; it is a conglomeration of disjointed ideas, situations, people. But it does manage to be entertaining, fairly consistently. "Mother Nature's big mistake," our own rip-snortin' Buck, is stranded in Paris together with a few dozen bathing beauty winners, and not a penny to his name. Non, pas un son. During the course of his wanderings in and out of hotel doors (and windows) he happens upon the fourth richest girl in America and kindly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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