Word: derelict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize fighters with big-time dreams, and the racketeers who make & break them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey Totter), it is a happy ending...
...then. Gotfred, son of a Marxist day laborer, had traveled far & wide as a sailor, tramp printer and roustabout. In 1931 he went to Moscow. He returned to Norway after that, but during the war, when the mines and homes of Kirkenes were demolished and villagers huddled together in derelict mineshafts, Hoelvold was back in Russia as a Norwegian-language news commentator on the radio. By the time he came back to Kirkenes in 1945, Russia's peace treaty with Finland had wiped out a whole section of Finnish-Norwegian border and Russia was Kirkenes' next-door neighbor...
...Bribe, dame and dilemma are beautifully embodied (but hardly acted) by Ava Gardner, wife of a derelict U.S. flyer (John Hodiak). When not hung over from bad rum and alleged combat fatigue, Hodiak is busy smuggling airplane engines to Central America with the help of a suave mastermind (Vincent Price) and a broken-down fingerman (Charles Laughton). Fed-Man Taylor finally convinces himself, with some hard-breathing monologuing, that Ava is innocent but deeply implicated. So why not sell out on his job and collect on his love-as well as on Laughton's $12,000 in hush money...
...mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody and nothing beyond the next mouthful of bread...
...nomination for re-election to his eighth term as president. They voted him in by acclamation and gave him 20 minutes' worth of howling, snake-dancing and table-thumping. Then Murray did some thumping of his own for price controls and smacked the Government for being "definitely derelict" in its duties. Later he was asked if he meant to include Harry Truman in his criticism. He did. Said Murray: "In this country we can criticize whom we choose, when we choose...