Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shirt." But Adlai Stevenson had gone south to do some serious talking. He stood on a yellow Coca-Cola crate behind a tall lectern and told 10,000 Georgians gathered in front of the state capitol that the Republicans are waving "the Red shirt" now just as they waved "the bloody shirt" after the Civil...
Beneath the cars' hoods lurked the apparatus of speed-superchargers, twin ignitions, high-compression engine heads, four-barreled carburetors, horsepower piled on horsepower. There were also gestures toward safety. One driver had reconnoitered the whole course, splashed yellow paint on the road to signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other drivers had also painted the course in stretches and confused the system). Thousands of Mexican soldiers were assigned to patrol the route, ward off unwary roadsiders. But safety seldom wins a race. For five days, over eight separately timed laps, speed was the watchword...
Appointment in Honduras (RKO Radio) is a problem picture. The problem: if Ann Sheridan, with nothing on her back but some translucent yellow nightclothes, is abandoned in a Central American jungle with six hot-blooded men, can the material sustain the stress of the situation...
...subject of the film is the annual Commemoration Run, from London to Brighton, of the British Veteran Car Club. The heroine is an alizarin-crimson 1904 Darracq named Genevieve, the hero an anonymous cadmium-yellow 1904 Spyker. The Darracq is the proud possession of a young man of moderate means (John Gregson). His wife (Dinah Sheridan) just goes along grimly for the ride. The Spyker belongs to a friend named Ambrose (Kenneth More), a frisky youth whose ambition it is "to combine the pleasures of the London-Brighton run with a really beautiful emotional experience...
...Brighton at last, while watching More crank up to a seduction scene with his girl, the husband begins to wonder darkly, "What happened on the '49 run?" when his wife, before they were married, made the trip in the yellow Spyker. His discontent takes the form of a belligerent insistence that his car is better than the other, and the two soon rooster each other into a race back to London, with the rash sum of ?100 riding on the outcome...