Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince also had villainous intrigues, swashbuckling swordplay, brawls on bridges and effective vignettes of a dark, cruel 16th century England, e.g., a weepy woman waiting in a cell to hang for stealing a yard of yarn; a bandaged old man who lost his ears for criticizing the Lord Chancellor; and the prince's whipping boy, hardly bigger than the Great Seal used by the pauper to crack nuts in the palace. But the play's most memorable image was its gentlest: a lovely little girl (Patty Duke, 8) finding the tattered prince-by then the king-asleep...
Beard in Hand. On the strength of this yarn, reinforced by the charge that one of the reactionaries "carried a false beard in his hand," the Syrian government next day expelled Stone, 32, onetime Library of Congress employee who has never even been in Guatemala in his life. Also expelled: a U.S. vice consul, and-though nobody had even mentioned his name before-the U.S. military attache...
...direct descendant of custard-pie slapstick, is one of the silliest strings of sight-and-sound gags ever to jounce through the sober inhibitions of staid latter-day Hollywood. Producer-Director-Writer Frank Tashlin, a onetime Disney cartoonist and sketching fabulist (The Bear That Wasn't), plays the yarn strictly for laughs...
Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitchum. Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...