Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years he searched, visiting savage coasts and coral islands. He almost lost an arm to a loft. shark, was nipped by a poisonous fish. "I was stung, stabbed and bitten," he recalls, "by fishes, fishes, and still more fishes." But never a coelacanth rose to bite him with its catlike teeth...
...prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every longshoreman looked more like the Army than the Army itself...
...musicians, kings, carousels and clowns-as bright and intricate as fine Turkish rugs. Hasan's color effects are strong, to say the least: blood red and seasick green, harlequin combinations of yellow, black, mauve and blue. His figures are tortured and twisted: grinning, round-faced peasants with shark's teeth, haunted, droopy-eyed old women, a wheel-shaped nightmare of a sea captain. On opening day, five of the pictures were snapped up and the gallery was looking for a sellout...
...Smith (Nat Holt; Paramount) is a flurry of low melodrama on the high seas. Included in the excitement: pirates taking over a slave ship, a battle between the ship's officers and the shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...
Yankee Buccaneer has more than its share of pitched battles, broadsides, plank walkings, scurvy epidemics, pirate attacks and pistol-point escapes. It even has a man-eating shark which Farragut subdues. But it is still no great shakes as either Hollywood hokum or history...