Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main plot: Orson, a "philosophical" merchant seaman who finds it "very sanitary to be broke," signs for a long yacht cruise because Rita Hayworth, who much prefers to be filthy rich, will be aboard. For love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...
...hands a month's leave a year without pay, reduced the staff of 1,487 by lowering the retirement age. On their part, Monégasques blamed the Société for bad management and two poor investments: 20.000,000 francs for a 1,500-ton yacht, and 50,000,000 francs for a new restaurant...
...that the movie has any similarity to a Bugs Bunny flick. As a naive Irish seaman, Welles becomes involved with as sinister a party of rich people as ever paced the deek of a pleasure yacht. Working for them on a trip to the Tropics, he falls in love with Rita Hayworth, the wife of "the most successful criminal lawyer in the country." In order to make enough money to take her away with him, he gets mixed up in a setup murder that is as bewildering to the audience as it is to Welles...
...Monday the yacht club will enter the Greater Boston competition for the Oberg Trophy, awarded to the fleetest dinghy squadron in the area...
Before a fresh and puffy blow, the Yacht Club opened its spring season Saturday by taking third place in a Quadrangular Meet on M.I.T.'s Charles River course. Boston University's sailors were first with 38 points, Northeastern second with 32, the Crimson next with 29, and Rhode Island last with...