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...willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as much as $122.45 in 1953. In 1801, when the infant U.S. was surrounded by enemies, the levy per person which was considered sufficient for defense amounted to 72? (in days-of-Jefferson values...
There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
...Beginning or the End (MGM) and Sinbad the Sailor (RKO Radio...
Highly confused in spots, the story seems to be concerned with a search for hidden treasure. When the fabulous jewels and the gold turn out to be a disappointment, Sinbad springs forward to point out a wholesome moral: Where is true treasure? Sinbad [sweeping hand to heart]: "It's here! [clasping forehead]-and here! [sweeping Miss O'Hara into his arms] -and here...
Anthony Quinn and Walter Slezak are suitably hateful as menaces, and Miss O'Hara is gorgeous in Technicolor. Fairbanks is energetic, but seems aware of the dangers of trying to imitate his late father. The elder Fairbanks would not only have given Sinbad more athletic bounce; while he was about it, he would also have slyly kidded the stuffing out of the plot's cloth-of-gold shirt...