Word: son-in-law
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...cast as John Ridgeway, a manufacturer who was once a dare-devil aviator and who feels the same way about breaking the sound barrier as some men would about exploring virgin territory. Ridgeway must send more planes and aviators to attempt the seemingly impossible, even after his son-in-law crashes in the first test plane. Although he alienates his daughter and wonders himself whether or not his vision is an evil spirit, he continues. When one of his planes finally beats the barrier, Ridgeway feels no clation--only, perhaps, relief...
...that his name was being blackened like that of "Archbishop Stepinac in Czechoslovakia" (the mayor presumably meant Yugoslavia). But the words were hardly out of his mouth before Richard McGrath of the John W. McGrath Stevedoring Co. testified that his firm had agreed to pay Kenny's son-in-law 50% of all profits on one pier to get the use of certain other Jersey City piers-though, as things turned out, the deal fell through, and they paid only $1,000 for good will...
...progresses to flamenco singing and dancing. Luis Miguél, in his blue jeans, plaid shirt and moccasins, sits on the floor and keeps time by clapping his hands. Among the guests may be two or three dukes, a marchioness or a count, Franco's daughter and son-in-law, diplomats, rich Americans, dwarfs, movie stars, farm hands and aspiring bullfighters...
...Klement Gottwald and the younger men in his group-Prime Minister Zapotocky, Foreign Minister Siroy, Defense Minister Cepika (Gottwald's son-in-law) -knew they had had a narrow escape, that their turn might come any time. Truly they are, in Slansky's words, men of two faces. One face is turned toward the brazen sun of power and privilege, the other toward the abyss on whose brink they stand...
...Rattigan's screenplay examines both flight and flyers: the stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of its theme. A pioneer aviation magnate (played with consummate craft by Ralph Richardson) is dedicated to penetrating the sound barrier. Before his "evil vision" is vindicated, his son (Denholm Elliott) and his son-in-law (Nigel Patrick) die at the controls of their planes, and the ruthless magnate himself is revealed to be a very lonely and human individual...