Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overaged pug (TIME, April...
...Some sharp-eyed observation of the rotten underside of the fight racket; with Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter (TIME, April...
...Alvin Kahn '49 of Upper Montclair, New Jerscy; Louis Frederick Klein, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Saul Kravetz '48 of Brooklyn, New York; Benjamin Hammet Lacy '49 of Dubuue, towa; Hugh Gregory Langley '49 of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada; Christopher Michael Martin '49 of Newark, New Jersery; Joseph Francis Ryan, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Paul Sack '48 of Younkers, New York; Eli Jacob Sagau '48 of South Orange, New Jersey; Howard Hugh Schless '46 to Philadelphia; Noel Marshall Seeburg, Jr. '46 of Chicago; Garabad Shargabian '48 of Roxbury; Jason Loonard Starr '49 of Mattapan; Robert Brown Voitle...
...Radio) is a tough little film about small-time prize fighters with big-time dreams, and the racketeers who make & break them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey...
...gets much of its surface glitter and look of reality from exciting camera work and lively invention. For its emotional drive, it relies almost entirely on the quiet, slowly accumulating honesty of Ryan's performance...