Word: sags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these two over do their parts a bit at the beginning when they reminisce about their late married life, and at the end when battling among a nest of telephones and fast-flying epithets. Yet the well-night perfect script holds up any such points where the movie might sag. Ralph Bellamy is the perfect sucker for the schemes of Grant, and the reporters who are constantly present in the press-room of the jail keep things moving. Fine dramatic relief is provided by the efforts of the condemned murderer and his girl-friend. The purpose of the picture, though...
...better is about three seconds, net. That is, they can fire perhaps 50 times before their rifled steel linings are so scored by hot, high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...