Word: storms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls and lightning flashes, Howard sings, attacks the girl after she has ridiculed him. She tries to kill...
...Hatteras. her frightened crew of 28 begged Captain George Coufopandelis to flash an S. O. S. to one of the several vessels which passed by. But he ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought from the U. S. Maritime Commission, would ride out the storm. . As their plight grew worse. Third Engineer Bortas Balaskas slipped into the radio room at 4:15 a. m., stood over the operator with drawn knife, commanded him to break the captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed...
...harbinger of the impending storm, 27 big shiny trunks, bulging with Eli shoulder pads and extra shoelaces, arrived from New Haven at the South Station at 10 o'clock last night, just twelve hours too early...
...Garrett wash out their own story. They also wash all the trees, houses, boats, animals and people off the atoll, leaving nothing but the Robert Edmond Jonesish ruin of a church. The hurricane lasts for 20 minutes. It is a technically superb, terrifying combination of miniatures, real storm shots, tank shots, stage shots made with wind machines, all blended with bursts of inhuman music as savage as the piping of damnation. During the course of it Terangi proves his worth by getting a rope to the church, rescuing Madame de Laage (Mary Astor), whose husband, Resident Governor Eugene de Laage...
...injury is not easy to determine from his actions, it seems to be mainly a matter of favoring the spot that hurts most. Whether or not he will be able to start against Army depends primarily on his powers of recuperation, but Cliff Wilson, who apparently has weathered the storm with no ill effects, is a more than adequate replacement. As a matter of fact, Wilson had the call over Boston at blocking back all last season...