Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport of kings as practiced by Hollywood's cinemoguls at worst resembles mounted croquet, at best an Indian raid from a western thriller or the flight of a Tartar tribe. Now & then man and beast roll in the dust, riders run wild-eyed after their mounts...
...load that night, and the better-balanced Harvard team, especially as in the free style events, should rate as a slight favorite at this date. Few of the races are predictable with any degree of certainty, and if the meet goes to the final relay, it will be a thriller. Princeton could probably muster up a foursome of Boozan, Sullivan, Vande Weghe, and Parke, who would make things tough for any Crimson quarter...
...Returns (Universal). People who enjoy seeing newspapers unfold themselves in midair, windows open without human assistance, unfilled suits of clothing perambulate through the landscape and an invisible hand unwind a thick swathing of head bandages and leave a headless jacket will experience a deep satisfaction at this pseudo-scientific thriller. In The Invisible Man (1933) invisibility caused the patient's death. No such silly boner is made this time. An antidote for invisibility is found, thus insuring Universal studio of the possibility of sequels as long as public interest in invisibility lasts...
Raffles (United Artists). Ernest William Hornung did not know, when he wrote The Amateur Cracksman in 1899, that his story would become a perennial movie renamed for its hero. The current Raffles is a fourth remake of the original nickelodeon thriller. It is also Producer Sam Goldwyn's second remake of the same film and his last picture for United Artists. He is now looking for a new distributor...
Coach Pete Peterson's Freshmen won a genuine thriller. The performance of Bus Curwen was outstanding, for not only did he win the 220 and 440, but anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...