Word: dint
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Outstanding among the current war-inspired films, this one begins a la Hemingway in Loyalist Spain, and proceeds by dint of skillful direction and Noel Cowardly dialogue right up to the present. It is built around the ancient girl reporter backbone, but manages, by the brilliant development throughout, to deemphasize this pleasantly...
...Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...