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The silliness of Cary Grant being too embarrassed and afraid of hurting his bride's feelings to tell her what happened--and the screwball results--gives way at the end to an interesting play of sexual tension between husband and wife as the wife refuses to give "privileges" till her husband affirms, not just his passion, but his commitment to her and the family.
Not actually true as the Beavers character refuses to take any money or establish herself in her own home, and Colbert must bank the money for her.
America was attempting to adjust to the aftermath of World War I (which is explored brilliantly in this film in a sequence through which Tom's brother, Mike, refuses to drink from a keg of beer smuggled in by Tom for his dinner party) People like Mike were still trying to feel that sense of loyalty towards the government after World War I. Yet that loyalty somehow vanished with the development of Prohibition and the rise of gang rule in urban society.
There is too much chat, as a futuristic (set in 1999) priest visits a monastery in Ireland that refuses to give up the Latin mass.
Its a film that refuses to go in any direction except its own.
It plays with reality, refuses to adhere to conventions and tells a story that only completely makes sense when you get to the end of it... and in my case its the sort of thing I know I need to see again to get a handle on.
Her husband follows her and tries to convince her to return to her family, but she refuses and goes on the trip with Rene.
She refuses and he kills her manager and friend and abducts her.
Harrison Ford plays a president who refuses to negotiate with terrorists.
This development affords Chris the opportunity to blackmail Romain into taking her on a date (threatening to expose the illicit affair to dad if Romain refuses).
After all, she knows Samara has returned for them, yet when Aidan has a nightmare that he refuses to share with her, his temperature drops five degrees and he starts acting really weird, she still is entirely clueless to what's going on.
Essence absolutely refuses to precede existence.
The Treasury department comes to ask his help and he at first refuses.
My daughter refuses to watch it (she's 2) and I couldn't be happier.
She refuses to tell her husband word one until "I want a divorce".
Unhappily he tunnels into Sing Song prison where a sadistic prison guard named Sam Schultz refuses to accept that he's anything but one of the prisoners.
George Carlin remains the King of HBO comedy and refuses to relinquish his crown with GEORGE CARLIN: LIFE IS WORTH LOSING.
When black doctor Percy Rodriguez refuses to take care of the injured drunken Keach, Arkin begins to work on him.
Later, she tells him basically that he acts more white than white people do after he refuses to help her husband out of a disastrous situation that results in catastrophe.
The man refuses saying he is feeling manipulated and the vagrant promptly shoots himself.
I was kinda put-off by the title but the movie is beautiful and Matthew Keeslar makes you go droool.. Anyway, the movie is basically about how this guy named Mark refuses to be victimised by a corrupted swindler and takes up the cause of the villagers and undertakes an ardrous journey to sell a flock of cattle.
He laughs at Dan Andersons character and refuses to give it.
Her boyfriend refuses to take care of their daughter, and she goes about her normal teenage activities, including going to the pool in their apartment complex, with her friends.
It just happens to be about a has-been 60's/'70's actress, who refuses to see that she's over the hill!
Yet even in the face of defeat, Vendler refuses to give up his hold on the ship or listen to reason or logic.
Crockett dismisses this as rubbish and stubbornly refuses to heed any warnings.
In the lawless town of Dodge City, Errol Flynn stands up to murderous cattle boss Bruce Cabot and refuses to sell him his livestock.
The young one uses speech, refuses dirty money, does not drink alcohol, begins to think it would be better that he take the old one's chair.
When the Irish orphan Mary Yellen (Maureen O'Hara) travels to Jamaica Inn to live with her aunt Patience (Marie Ney), the coachmen of her stagecoach refuses to stop in the infamy inn, and Mary asks for help in the house of the magistrate of the Justice of the Peace Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton) that rides with her to the inn.
She blurts out the truth of the marriage trap when Harding refuses to again pay off her debts.
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