Word: speakin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments (some Grade-A brawling, excellent underwater photography, an occasional astonishing set), but they are inadequate substitutes for real characters and a good story. The story itself is the successful fight of shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed, and Shipowner Ray Milland, who is anything...
Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
They had a belle named Madeleine Carroll portrayin a southern girl gone wrong--she had gone up noth to live after her pappy and mammy done diahd. They had her come back speakin a nothen accent and, suh, its a dis-grace, that's what it is, and we all should rize up and defend ouah honor. Any man with any blood of oauh ancestors who's seen goin into this picture will be challenge to a duel by some of us who still remain true to Genel Lee--God rest his soul...
...larn the young 'uns. Nobody ever come in. Nobody ever went out. We jist growed up and never knowed nothin'. I can't read nor write; many of my chilluns can't read nor write, but I have grands and greats as is the purtiest speakin' and the easiest larnin' of any chilluns in the world. I want as they should have 'a chancet...