Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army was the only team that both squads met this fall and both lost to the well-drilled cadet outfit. Yale also fell before the onslaught of Penn and Princeton, the latter a 21 to 20 thriller last Saturday...
Milton Beric, who plays publicity man for Glenn's band, is almost, but not quite, as funny as he tries (hard) to be. Glenn Miller makes up for his dead-pan acting with some hit-paraders. The second feature, "Parachute Battalion," is a respectable thriller and filler...
...Smiling Ghost," with Wayne Morris and Brenda Marshall, is a rip-roaring mystery thriller that packs a lot more wallop than the feature it's supposed to be playing second fiddle...
Portland's rodeo fans have witnessed many an unscheduled thriller in their arena but none to equal last week's performance of San Francisco's dude riders. In "threading the needle" (forming and maintaining a figure eight at full gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist...
This is not because "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a chiller-thriller where women scream faint; the wear and tear on one's constitution all occurs around you, laughing apparatus, and if you faint it's because you can't take the belly-agitation. Wliat Joseph Kesserling has written from a God-sent (or Perhaps Ghoul-sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve...