Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever was in Old John's mind, he played his game with his usual matchless skill. From the Government viewpoint, the contract which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally...
Odell comes by his football skill naturally, having spent almost all of his life in the game. He played high school football in Sioux City as a youngster, and a few years later became an outstanding back at the University of Pittsburgh, at a time when the Panthers had long teeth and sharp claws...
...first USSR production in color, the picture is nothing but a series of views of the first post-war sports celebration in Red Square, Moscow. As an exhibition of color and acrobatic skill, of beauty in sheer numbers, or of the incredible diversity of peoples in the Soviet Republic, it is impressive. But after only a few minutes awe gives way to boredom and horror of a sort...
Song of the South (Walt Disney-RKO Radio) makes movie actors out of ol' Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and de creeturs an' crawlin' things. Adapted with freehanded skill from the famed dialect tales of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), the picture is a curious mixture of live action (70%) and cartooning...
Every shady move in this fast crook movie has been tested and approved, time & again, at the boxoffice. But the familiar yarn, retold with energy, skill and loving corroborative detail, is still serviceable. John Garfield, head con man in as seedy a gang of characters as ever plotted a swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright...