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...Houston last December, when his second daughter Glennalee, 17, eloped with her young highschool sweetheart George Pontikes, the son of an immigrant Greek cobbler, Millionaire Glenn McCarthy flew into the classic fatherly rage. By last week, however, time and normal events had softened the blow, and photographers caught the terrible-tempered oilman in the classic pose of a new grandfather. Glennalee had presented him with his first granddaughter. Her name: Glennalee McCarthy Pontikes...
Shadow agrees to a last card game for Tom's life - and loses, but condemns Tom to madness. Tom's faithful country sweetheart, Anne Trulove, tracks him down in Bedlam to say goodbye ("We shall not meet again, love, yet never think that I forget...
...enough temper, he can become heavyweight champion of the world. Jeff Chandler, a coal miner whose only real ambitions are to marry Evelyn Keyes and own a radio store, has a nasty habit of going efficiently berserk when anyone mocks him. Egged on by his sweetheart and ne'er-do-well brother (Stephen McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers as an inept one, Chandler nevertheless bulls his Neanderthal way to the championship. With none...
...demanded money for keeping secrets most of the neighbors did not have. The charges, all phony, said such things as, "Your husband belonged to the Gestapo. If you don't bring me 50,000 francs I will denounce him to the police," or "I know who strangled your sweetheart. Send me 50,000 francs and I won't say anything." The letter writer invariably used pink stationery, was promptly nicknamed by the press "the pink raven" (in French, the word "raven" is slang for a poison-penner...
...earlier version of his book,* might well have felt flattered by the new one. No director could hope (or want) to reproduce the mass of detail which Dreiser took from life to fill out the case history of a young man charged with the murder of his cast-off sweetheart. Moviemaker Stevens, working with an intelligent script by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown, captures the power of the novel without its heaviness, the insight without the inventories. The story still flows inexorably from the springs of character and environment. And though Stevens concentrates on its poignant love affairs, he neither...