Word: touts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...racetrack tout known as the Lemon Drop Kid, Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning...
...last April Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan went before 2,322 farmers in Minnesota to tout his controversial Brannan plan. The farmers, who work part-time for the Agriculture Department as local committeemen, were paid $8 a day plus 5? a mile traveling allowances plus incidental expenses to hear the big chief plug his own propaganda. Last week U.S. Comptroller General Lindsay Warren reported to Congress that Brannan's two-day rally had cost...
Night and the City (20th Century-Fox) is a gaudy melodrama showing the misadventures of a double-dealing nightclub tout (Richard Widmark) in London's lower depths. Based on a Gerald Kersh novel and filmed on location, it gets some lurid effects out of a sordid story, murky backgrounds and a gallery of grotesque characters. Unfortunately, the excitement runs down well before the picture does...
...most part, Capra clings so faithfully to Broadway Bill that in one sequence he appears to have lifted scenes bodily out of the old picture without bothering to reshoot them. Among the performers playing a return engagement: Raymond Walburn as a gentlemanly tout, Clarence Muse as a trainer, Douglas Dumbrille as a big-time gambler, Frankie Darro as a crooked jockey. As extra dividends, Capra has plumped out the cast with some new players who are a match for them, especially William Demarest, who plays Walburn's sidekick, Charles Bickford as a dyspeptic millionaire, Percy Kilbride as a hayseed...