Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reed was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to the seat vacated by rock-ribbed conservative George Sutherland just after the downfall of F.D.R.'s court-packing plan. Through the years he seemed to swing from New Deal-type liberalism to the middle-of-the-road to a form of conservatism, but he insisted that the country was swinging, not he. Once the late Justice Robert H. Jackson twitted Reed on growing more conservative. "Either that," said Jackson, "or you're changing your law clerks, Stanley." Reed answered: "It must be the law clerks, because I haven't changed...
This chaste sentiment convinces him that he loves her, and his dishonorable intentions become honorable. So they get married. Unfortunately, the sudsy plot is only just getting under way. The moviegoer who decides to sit it out can watch Dorothy Malone play a nymphomaniac who has a yen for Rock Hudson, who, in turn, has a yen for Lauren, who gets slapped around by Stack, who eventually shoots himself accidentally, which enables Rock and Lauren to fall into each other's arms at last...
Written on the Wind (Universal-International) opens with Rock Hudson, geologist for a Texas oil company, taking Lauren Bacall, a secretary, to lunch at a swank Manhattan saloon where there is no telling what a pretty girl may be offered after the dessert. There she meets Robert Stack, an oil millionaire who quickly establishes the fact that he is a rich Texan by debonairly putting out his cigarette in a glass of champagne. Texan Stack asks Lauren to go for a ride before going back to the office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...