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Word: tchornyia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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Ride a Crooked Mile (Paramount). The central figure of this picture is a borsch-supping, caviar-munching, Otchi-Tchornyia-singing Cossack (Akim Tamiroff). Its locale is Kansas. For this apparent contradiction there is a simple explanation. The Cossack is a cattle rustler. and cattle rustling, by old cinema tradition, is an un-American occupation pursued only by refugees from nations to which Hollywood does not export its wares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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