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...View from the Bridge. Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, the film postures ineffectually as Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush, but as a modern drama of moral incest, it has considerable merit, thanks largely to Raf Vallone's muscular performance as the troubled stevedore...
...View from the Bridge. Playwright Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush makes about as much sense as building a brownstone Parthenon, but Director Sidney Lumet has filmed the play with pace and intelligence, and Actor Raf Vallone, as the stevedore hero, has the brute force of a cargo hook...
...View from the Bridge. Playwright Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush makes about as much sense as building a brownstone Parthenon, but Director Sidney Lumet has filmed the play with pace and intelligence, and Actor Raf Vallone, as the stevedore-hero, has the brute force of a cargo hook...
...place in baseball's Hall of Fame and whose off-field training notions ("Raise all the hell you want but don't get caught") and on-field capers, such as getting trapped on third base along with two Brooklyn Dodger teammates, won the hearts of Flatbush fans; of a heart attack; in Homosassa Springs, Fla. No mere comedian, Dazzy led the National League in strike-outs seven years in a row, fanned a total of 2,045 batters, racked up a 28-6 record during his best year, 1924, and pitched a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies...
...writing songs for the Yiddish theater in the '303, he and Lyricist Jacob Jacobs would peddle the copyrights to music publishers for $15 apiece, and they were happy to get the money. One day in 1937, Secunda heard a familiar sound coming out of the jukeboxes of Flatbush. The Andrews Sisters had picked up one of his tunes, cut a record for Decca with new lyrics, and all over the U.S. people were dancing...