Word: wagnerism
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...reason for this strange pattern of events became crystal clear the next day, when New York City's new mayor, Tammany-backed, Bronx-backed Robert F. Wagner Jr., announced some of his own appointments. Named a justice of Brooklyn's court of special sessions (which deals mostly with misdemeanors) was Vincent R. Impellitteri. The judgeship, though it pays $19,500 a year, was no longer the apple of Impy's eye. Main consideration: by staying on the city payroll in any capacity for two more years, Impellitteri will become eligible for what will probably be the highest...
...Union organization in the South lagged before the Wagner Act was passed and after it was passed; it still lagged after Taft-Hartley replaced the Wagner...
...picture fails to achieve much originality, it is not because Terry Moore and the octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty...
This is precisely what happens to the old man when he goes down for his third consecutive time, dragging the film with him. Not realizing that the picture has ended, Wagner goes on trying to conquer rival fishermen who are stealing his sponges, and Terry Moore, who has almost stolen his show...
...film's many crises, the cast carries on with feverish emotion, as though the only way to express great feeling is with a shout or a groan. The octopus alone manages to preserve his dignity, and he gets stabbed in the last reel. But despite the success of Wagner's sponge-fishing expedition, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is at best a meagre catch for the audience...