Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the clich...
...mother, whom he describes as "a sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
...Matching stride for stride with tens of thousands of tanned, healthy, spade-carrying German Labor Front workers who tramped across Nürnberg's green field, tens of thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
Valley of the Giants (Warner Bros.), like Drums (see below), takes color completely in its stride. And its Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor...
...lifted the tip of the umbrella form the sidewalk, mumbled a word and fell in with the other's rapid stride...