Word: slam-bang
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Crack-Up's slam-bang plot never makes a great deal of sense-but it contains some good, fast chases, a fire, a corpse in the dark museum basement and a train crash. Through all the energetic hurlyburly, the hero & heroine look convincingly confused and harried...
...copies, was anybody's guess. Although Wakeman insisted that his fantastic, domineering Evan Evans was a fictional "composite," the resemblances to George Hill seemed more than coincidental. Like Evans, Mr. Hill is fond of wearing a hat in his office. His alltime Hit Parade favorite is a slam-bang version of Over There (a tune which delighted Mr. Evans). Like Mr. Evans, whose slogan was "Love that Soap," Hill believes in irritating and ear-shattering repetition. Some American Tobacco plugs: "Herbert Tareyton is back-yes, Herbert Tareyton is back!" "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war" and "L.S./M.F.T...
...Butch LaGuardia probably could not be put over without a slam-bang fight. It was not likely that big Jim Farley and other conservatives would accept LaGuardia without some heavy shooting. Farley makes no bones about how much he dislikes New Dealish Jim Mead. In 1942 he had said Mead would "make a terrible Governor...
...Those who have been through the grinder have made no such charge. Army's coach, Colonel Earl ("Red") Blaik, who believes there are more suitable places for pussyfooting than a gridiron, denies the charge and offers movies of their games as evidence that his Cadets keep within the slam-bang limits of big-time football...
Spellbound (United Artists) is a psychiatric thriller which makes the mistake of trying to give the audience a lesson in psychiatry. Egg-shaped Director Alfred Hitchcock is up to his old game of chasing two frightened lovers through thousands of suspenseful feet of film to a slam-bang finish. This time he turns his formula and the police on Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck and hounds them expertly through a hotel lobby, a railway station, a train. But thanks to Ben Hecht's script, the real hue & cry is in the hero's mind. Miss Bergman, disguised...