Word: santana
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Beat the Devil (Santana; United Artists), if it is any one thing at all, is as elaborate a shaggy-dog story as has ever been told. It was made up by Author Truman (Other Voices, Other Rooms) Capote and Director John (The African Queen) Huston during the spring season last year at Ravello, on the Gulf of Sorrento, apparently by stirring Strega fumes slowly into a novel by James Helvick. Because Huston happened to have $1,000,000 and several talented actors at his disposal, everybody fell to and turned the bibble-babble into a movie...
...Sirocco (Santana; Columbia) operates strictly on the old merchandising maxim that the best product is one that has already proved itself with the customers. Tricked out with a few new flourishes, this sales-tested item has been manufactured with exactly the same dies that stamped out Humphrey Bogart's successful Casablanca...
Knock on Any Door (Santana; Columbia) carries an earnest but wobbly torch for a familiar social message. It also carries the imprint of a new independent called Santana Productions, partly owned by Humphrey Bogart. For his first effort as a producer, Bogart chose Willard Motley's bestselling novel, put Director Nicholas Ray to work behind the cameras, then walked around in front of the lens into the leading role...
...Janeiro, 36-year-old José Lourival de Santana had no such luck. José's nose had been neatly amputated by a burglar's well-aimed razor slash. He was rushed to a hospital. A tidy policeman dropped the nose into a garbage can. Young Dr. Paulo Marques de Souza thought José's nose could be saved. First it had to be found. It was-after six hours among the garbage...
Roxbury will be represented by the following men: Foils: Slade; Hotchkiss; Carkhuff. Epee: Hotchkiss; Carkhuff. Sabre: Santana; Carkhuff...