Word: veras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characterize Mrs. Hudd. Slowly her voluble good spirits curdle into nervousness and sorrow. Ed Finnegan also gives an outstanding performance, musing and whining with great finesse as the elderly Mr. Kidd. Dustin Hoffman plays Mr. Hudd with realistic stolidness. The other parts are handled skillfully by Paul Benedicts, Vera Lee, and Lester Gilmore...
Ostensibly, Hallelujah has a plot, but I can't say I felt like puzzling it out. So let me refer to a printed synopsis: Vera is a lovely girl who has been courted by two men for seven years--Leo (Marty Greenbaum), who is quiet and awkward, and Jack (Peter H. Beard), who is handsome and unpredictable. Since each suitor sees the girl differently, Vera is played by two actresses (Sheila Finn and Peggy Steffans). This is clever. In the eighth year Vera marries Gideon, who never appears; and Jack and Leo go off on a camping trip...
...sailor named Julio Luna Vera, 32, was brought into Ecuador's Clinica Guayaquil with a right hand so shattered by a grenade explosion that amputation was necessary. Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, 47, who had never done any transplant work, decided to try. He put a tourniquet on Luna's arm and cooled it with cracked ice. He had a donor: a 43-year-old laborer-also named Luna-who lay dying of internal hemorrhage in another Guayaquil hospital where his family gave permission for the transplant...
Also elected were: George A. Vera, Jr. '65, treasurer; Stephen Q. Shafer '66, secretary; Philip M. Lowe '66, public relations czar; Eric Street '66, advertising manager; and Joseph T. Ryan, Jr. '66, circulation director...
...somebody wants to know as the film begins. We are lost in the woods of Vermont, that's where, and so are those two schloonks on the screen. One is called Jack (Peter H. Beard) and the other Leo (Marty Greenbaum), and they are both in love with Vera. But Vera has just married Gideon and the boys are terribly upset. How could she! How could she be so cruel to two passionate admirers who have seen her at least once a year for the last seven years...