Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make things still easier, they row the 4¾ miles to Chelsea with the tide, not against it, as Thomas Doggett's contemporaries used to do. No longer will the Speaker rush from the Chair in the House of Commons with the members in tow (as Charles Shaw-Lefevre did to watch the 1848 race). But to young rivermen, winning the race is still their greatest ambition...
...Dead Jockey (MGM) offers a transposed version (from Paris to Madrid) of Irwin Shaw's story about an ex-Air Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his rationalized pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario...
Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitchum. Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...time when contemporary American drama consists largely of stillborn carbon copies of Ibsen, Shaw and Chek- hov, Kerr departs from realism, naturalism and contemporary social problems. Turning to Aristophanic comedy and American history, he weaves a very refreshing and unusual play that injects new life and variety into the Iceberg American theatre, and which, baring the bedrock of American ideals and tradition, reveals the strains of a nation's soul through song, fables and poesy, and so utterly avoids didactic realism...
Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...