Word: slam-bang
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...cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle is straightened out when Hap and Johnny save a burning oil well by slam-bang courage. As in countless previous pictures, Pat O'Brien loses his girl in the end to the ne'er-do-well he has reformed, shrugs his rounding shoulders, once again turns his face to buffeting fate...
...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
...idea, though old, is amusing, and the play has scattered good moments. But it is neither fast nor funny enough. What it needed was George Abbott's slam-bang direction; but it's no cinch, on Broadway, to shake an Abbott...
...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...
...gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...