Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellas? That boy is pitching some wild ones. In the first place, my strips did not picture the Senate as a whole. I clearly indicated, in both drawings and dialogue, that this was a special group, determined to kill a bill to put Congress on the air for all America to hear...
...everyday matter for William Blake to converse with the ghost of a flea or Milton's apparition, and his works are clearly those of a man who saw "A world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower." The subject matter of most of the paintings in the present exhibit, the Book of Job and the Divine Comedy, completely suit the artist's mystical nature; only such a man could tear from the delicate medium of watercolors all the horror and ecstasy of Job's sufferings and Dante's revelation...
...Wild Harvest (Paramount) revives the once profitable Quirt-Flagg* formula: two high-skilled bums carom around odd corners of the world, working at the same jobs, tomcatting after the same girls, fighting each other, and unable to do without each other. Wild Harvest adds something new to the formula: this time the heroes are migratory workers, involved in the robust job of wheat harvesting with combines. The harvesting job gives the audience something novel and vigorous to look at, and it also gives the players something better to do than talk and make faces at each other. But there...
...Wild Harvest was directed by Tay Garnett, who has a flair for directing men and melodramas (Bataan, Cross of Lorraine). Whenever his men are hard at work or at their more believable kinds of play, Director Garnett shows what a good movie this might have been. His harvesters' dance is a fine, forlorn scene, and he stages quite a hair-raising wheat fire and a particularly violent chase. But he seems to have realized that nothing could be done with the tense Lamour-Ladd relationship except to treat it as slightly ridiculous...
When James Mason knocked over his glass toward the end of "Odd Man Out" and saw the reflection of his enemies shouting at him from the suds, he gave a wild cry and sank to the floor. When the sounding brass of Hollywood got around to viewing the foaming beer, they might well have done the same thing, for this scene and the rest of "Odd Man Out" is so consistently above California crop standards as to blanch the stoutest of the film empire. Even the Irish Republican Army would be shaken...