Word: suckered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payne is an ex-pug who gets his first brass-knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, a W. C. Fields nightcap, is long, loaded, and likely to leave its imbiber dizzy. In swift succession, Fields falls out of an airplane and into a romance, he rushes an innocent woman to a maternity hospital, and he intimidates every child who comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean...
...executive council, then chairman of the committee; he endorsed the World Peace Congress and the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace. Said Shaw: "I joined organizations with words I was interested in, like 'democracy' and 'peace' . . . For a while I was a sucker for signing things ... I wouldn't sign anything today unless I had seven lawyers and this committee's approval...
...They don't lose much money, either," he concluded. "The average student is no sucker...
...Guinness' talent; suffice it to say that he seems to me to be the funniest man in the acting profession today. What is worthy of comment is the quality of the rest of the performances, particularly that of Glynis Johns as the girl who plays Guinness for a sucker. Miss Johns is not, I think, a good actress but in this picture she sparkles, maneuvering her cyclids and husky voice to perfection. As usual, too, the minor characters are sharply delincated and make a fine gallery...