Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away. First, the good word: he would see out of both eyes once more when famed Plastic Surgeon A. H. McIndoe, who "had yet to score a failure," could give him new lids. He would move his lips, when the new one healed, without frothing like "a perhaps refined stallion." And not until he was almost strong enough to enter what he calls the "Beauty Shop" for skin-grafting was he told: "Next war for you: those hands are going to be something of a problem...
...hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles of Actor Barrymore. Barely submerged under these churlish exteriors lie warm old hearts which rescue true love and the mortgage in time's ticking nick...
...camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay of Pépé is vivid because it is told without frills. Newsreel true are the unpretentious, inexpensive sets...
...Carson McCullers sees fit to create it in a Southern Army camp, and is almost desperately psychomedical. Within its 183 pages a child is born (some of whose fingers are grown together), an Army captain suffers from bisexual impotence, a half-witted private rides nude in the woods, a stallion is tortured, a murder is done, a heartbroken wife cuts off her nipples with garden shears...