Search Details

Word: tramp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...film presents Producer-Scripter-Composer-Director Chaplin in his classic role as a tramp with the instincts of a gentleman. He falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) who takes him for a handsome millionaire. To help her out of difficulties as he nurtures her illusion, Chaplin leans mostly on his acquaintance with a real' millionaire (the late Harry Myers), an eccentric who showers him with favors and affection while drunk and rejects him while sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hardy Perennial | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Groucho as Sam Grunion, astigmatic private eye, narrates the story. Fabulously valuable hot diamonds are accidentally stolen by a kleptomaniac tramp (Harpo) on a foraging trip for a group of starving young actors. The seductive Madame Egelinka (Ilona Massey) and her two musclebound minions try to recover the jewels from Harpo throughout the rest of the picture while Chico, a piano-playing mind reader wanders aimlessly about complicating things...

Author: By John X. Kaplan, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/11/1950 | See Source »

...drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...posting bills, provided he can supply his own bicycle. To get the bicycle, his wife has to sell the family's sheets. During the first day on his new job the bicycle is stolen. The rest of the film follows the worker and his young son as they tramp through the streets of Rome in a futile search...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

Take Denmark, suggested Professor Urey. If Russia wanted to persuade Denmark to resign from the North Atlantic pact, he said, it could simply slip a tramp ship into Copenhagen harbor with an a-bomb in the hold. At the right psychological moment, the word could be passed to the Danes at their capital was on the verge of being blown up. "If this sort of thing happens in Europe," said Urey, "it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep these people in the Atlantic pact and there will be perhaps a serious move to alienate the members . . . before this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Atomic Extortion | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next