Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Peronista majority did as it was told, the 40 radical deputies in the 188-member Congress staged an unprecedented scene. One Radical took copies of Peron's new constitution, tore them to bits and threw them in the air. Another smashed a cup and saucer, skimmed the pieces at Chamber President Hector Cam-pora. Still others threw books, pens and pencils at their Peronista colleagues, meanwhile shouting oaths and obscenities. Balbin meanwhile had made a farewell speech and announced that he would present himself before a judge for trial...
...radio, movies, love, housekeeping, or the church," mused Edgar Bergen, "but it has definitely revived vaudeville. I wish there would be a guardian over vaudeville this time to.prevent the same people from killing it who killed it before." He added darkly: "Several of them are back at the scene of the crime...
...behind. In one of the most frenetic baseball weeks since 1908,* Joe McCarthy's Boston Red Sox had taken over first place. In the National League, Burt Shotton's Brooklyn Dodgers had been suddenly handed a one-game lead when the St. Louis Cardinals fell apart. The scene was set for a storybook finish...
Kazan has directed an artfully balanced script (by Dudley Nichols and Philip Dunne) with a heavy poetic atmosphere and shrewd attention to dramatic detail. He has pumped conflict into every scene and sustained the excitement throughout even the talky stretches...
...entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight. After breaking an ax handle on the villain's hand, Conte mauls him from one end of a bar to the other with a series of rabbit punches, each...