Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...lived freely with the men, changing partners frequently. One girl of 20, called Penicilina, devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...
...police detective, riding with his wife through whooping crowds in the middle-class Catete district, whipped out his revolver when someone made a disparaging remark about the lady; in the ensuing gunplay, six were wounded. An air force officer, drunk enough to be offended by the sight of two men swimming at Tijuca Beach in their underwear, wounded one and killed the other...
...gotten Lola into trouble; afterwards the baby died, and the sexy, good-natured, empty-headed girl turned into a shiftless housewife, her mind on men, her thoughts in the past. Doc wound up not a doctor, but a chiropractor, and (until Alcoholics Anonymous took over) a drunk. His career blighted, his emotions blunted, he half sleepwalks through life. Then, discovering that their college-girl boarder is turning, like Lola, into a slut, he goes on another drunken rampage...
...youth organization) rolled through a tiny hamlet near Dresden in Germany's Russian zone. As it ground to a stop, the blue shirts piled out shouting: "Farmer Fritz Merkel is a doppelzüngiger Reaktionär (two-timing reactionary)." Two trucks that followed disgorged half-frightened, vodka-drunk workers. On Communist orders, they rushed out to Fritz merkel's farm, smashed and scattered farm tools, opened chicken coops and rabbit hutches. some of them broke down the heavy door of the farmhouse and seized Farmer Merkel. He was beaten and kicked until he signed a paper admitting...