Word: thugging
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...four derelicts on the rot in a Central American oil town. Mario (Yves Montand), a young Corsican with meaty good looks and the gross itch they often portend, ekes out his boredom by cadging bliss at a local refreshment booth (Vera Clouzot). Jo (Charles Vanel), a career thug who fears nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living. Bimba (Peter Van Eyck...
...round with Ike, Graham, whose scores hover in the so-so 90s, laughed and said: "I don't play that good a game." Meanwhile, Hollywood was expecting Graham to play something easier: the role of Billy Graham in a movie about his conversion of a onetime Los Angeles thug...
...same net. For such an effort might dissuade the President from continuing his offensive against the Senator, or, at best, make his task harder. To play partisan politics at this time will confuse and hinder what is shaping up as a bipartisan drive to destroy this totalitarian thug, and restore party competition to the area of trust where it must be to survive in a democracy...
...colorful splash of fiery vignettes, effectively backed by clever lighting, a ballet-drilled cast, exotic . costumes, and an ominous musical background of Spanish guitars. The story concerns two brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring. "It has flavor . . . depth and feeling," wrote the Times...
...Says an old union song, called Which Side Are You On?, written in the hard-shooting days of Harlan's labor unrest: They say in Harlan County, There are no neutrals there; You'll either be a union man, Or a thug for J. H. Blair...