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...times. But it becomes merely amusing when he borrows from advertisements (A piece of apple pie is "nutritious, and ... delicious"), and elsewhere downright sickeningly romantic. ("Holy flowers floating in the dawn of Jazz America.") And when he tries to describe jazz, he reaches the heights of the ridiculous. ("ta-tup-EE-da-de-deraRup ...") It's difficult to see why, in the day of LP's, he thinks it necessary to compete with Charlie Parker on paper...
When he took the stand in the Senate caucus room, Tony Ducks was not talking, beyond muttering "I refuse t'ansuh on the ground it may tend ta 'criminate me." But Tony talked anyway-on six wiretaps played by the committee. In telephone talks with a Runyonesque rogue's gallery of obsequious underlings (including his front man, natty Sam Goldstein, who also claimed protection under the Fifth Amendment), Tony Ducks showed that he is a Little Caesar among New York's labor racketeers: as a top gun, Tony Ducks snarled out advice to his hoodlums. Item...
...central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with her breasts placed high, and her long jet-black hair hung down to her supple waist"), but on Captain Pierre's solemn remonstrance, he decided ta do his duty...
...most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...
...from his deathbed and reels out "to die with the only friend I ever had.'' They both survive, and in the moment conventionally occupied by the clinch, the two heroes stand face to face. In a voice charged with emotion, the marshal says: "I just wantcha ta know I'd a never made it withoutcha." And as he drags himself off to join the gorgeous, redheaded heroine (Rhonda Fleming), Actor Lancaster looks like a man who is heading for nothing better than the electric chair...