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Word: chaney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them light out for In dian territory in pursuit of the evil Tom Chaney, her dad's murderer, who is riding with the dreadful Ned Pepper gang. Mattie and Rooster are joined by La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). That makes five eyes altogether, and woe to the criminal that tries to evade them. The dastardly Chaney can contrive to shoot Rooster and bash in La Boeuf's head and trap Mattie in a rattlesnake pit. But doom hangs over him. What devil, after all, could even hope to best good Christians who possess true grit-the 19th century version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Law and Ardor Candidate | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...crisis in personality. Today we think in terms of psychology, not belief, so the new Bergman is easier to take. Seventh Seal has the aura of a morality play: Hour of the Wolf a cerebral horror film. Who would you pay $1.50 to see, Norman Vincent Peale or Lon Chaney...

Author: By David W. Boorstin, | Title: 'The Dove' and the Swede | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Such stories plague the careers of our greatest film-makers, including King Vidor, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, and Frank Borzage, as well as stars like Gloria Swanson, Rudolf Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney Sr., and even W. C. Fields, one of whose two films directed by D. W. Griffith is lost...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The Establishment of a Film Archive: Search for the Lost Films | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

...simians simultaneously cover their eyes, ears and mouth. The best thing about the film results from Producer Arthur P. Jacobs' decision to allocate $1,000,000 for masks and costumes. The makeup boys have given him his money's worth with the most beastly metamorphoses since Lon Chaney moonlighted as the Wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Planet of the Apes | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...staked out a big Confederate flag. Across the street, U.S. District Judge W. Harold Cox and a jury of white Mississippians were hearing charges against 18 of their neighbors named as plotters in the grisly 1964 murders of Civil Rights Workers Michael Schwerner, 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, and James Chaney, 21. The indictment did not specify murder-merely a conspiracy to deny the dead men their constitutional rights under a federal statute dating back to Reconstruction days. But the flag was a reminder that the Deep South never cottoned to such laws. Then one morning last week a barber slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Reckoning in Meridian | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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