Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This play deals with elemental themses associated with the return of a bum sailor to his child and wife, who has remarried in his absence, and his clumsy efforts to wrest their affections from the well-meaning and honest spouse number two. The bum never has much trouble with the kid but doesn't get to first base with the old lady. It is doubtful that one play ever bit off so much and chewed so little; the drama is sloppily constructed and implausible; and the resolution is meaningless...
...that's where the hero (Humphrey Bogart) comes in. Sportswriter Bogart is all too ready to reach for the folding money, even if he has to get his hands a little dirty. Nick offers him 10% of Toro's take to handle the big bum...
...principal characters of Inge's story are unfortunately not very interesting either. Several of them are frustrated women waiting around for some man to walk into their lives. But the man who finally comes, a one-time college athlete now turned bum, picks out the only engaged girl in the crowd as the object of his affection. Needless to say, the fact that the man to whom she is engaged happens to be the bum's sole college friend stops both of them only long enough to provide adequate running time for the film, and, of course, to get that...
...with a commercial band. But Schwiefka (Robert Strauss) is not letting go, and neither is Frankie's wife (Eleanor Parker), a demented leech who is systematically eating his heart out. While the wife bleeds him white, Schwiefka sets up a frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round...
...time all year, Lahey sets off for Miami with a $400 stake for a two-week horseplaying binge. Last week, in mid-vacation, the horses were $40 ahead. Sighed Lahey: "It's the perfect vacation, knowing your money must be spent improvidently. I feel like a bum with funds...