Word: timere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between rocket launchings, Director Donnelly unloads the usual "Navy" plot--brass, sweat, and gush. The stereotyped roles of dogmatic admiral, bright young officer, and old-timer crew chief have been played hundreds of times before with the same mediocrity. Unfortunately, the plot is just as mechanical as the casting: Star Glenn Ford gets a clever idea, the admirals give him the runaround, and then he makes a pass at the base chief's secretary. At length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This...
...movie begins with some random shots of the London police force at work and at play. Once the audience is convinced that policemen are human, the camera centers on rookie Andy Mitehell (Jimmy Hanley), who is being shown around by old timer George Dixon (Jack Warner). After about fifteen minutes of this, the gangster part begins with the entrance of two recent graduates of the juvenile delinquent class who are shunned by professional crooks. since London Bobbies don't carry guns, old George soon finds himself face to face with the young gangsters and can do nothing but walk slowly...
Shades of Blue (Ethel Waters; Remington). A worthwhile reissue of an old-timer warbling with wide but fine-toned tremolo some famed old songs: Cabin in the Sky, Am I Blue, Dinah...
...Forces Air Materiel Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...
...Farrand, as Cressida, has changed her interpretation considerably. Instead of playing a sexy two-timer as she did last year, she makes Cressida out to be a well-meaning and affectionate girl who is the victim of circumstances. The change in role has not diminished her charms as an actress. Cressida's uncle, Pandarus, is played by Thayer David, who makes the part, that of a coarse and effeminate old man extremely amusing...