《《Checkerboard (1959)》》Storyline
"" ""Sweet and fitting it is to die for the Fatherland."" Some of you may have ambitions.I know of one young man who has great promise as a writer, and he has written the first act of a tragedy which would be a credit to one of the masters.But then the sexually-repressed Preacher reconsiders:There are too many of them.Can""t kill the world.Suddenly, a long arm of the law grabs him on the shoulder, and asks ("Are you driving a touring car with a Moundsville license?") before apprehending him - the hand belongs to a policeman, and with a scene wipe left, ""Preacher"" Harry Powell is sentenced before a judge to thirty days in the Moundsville, West Virginia Penitentiary for stealing an auto.During conversation at a grotesque banquet feast - of snake filled with live eels, giant fried tandoori beetles, eyeball soup, and chilled monkey brains for dessert, discussion centered around the historical existence of a bloodthirsty Kali Thuggee religious cult (practicing human sacrifice) in the area.Ward""s formulaic sports comedy began with the inheritance of a perennially losing team - the Cleveland Indians by widowed, ex-showgirl wife Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), who eagerly schemed to move he team to sunny Miami, FL - but only if the team""s yearly attendance dropped significantly (below 800,000); to her surprise, the recruited misfit players on her inept and underdog team began to win games, and ultimately they joined together to prevent her from sabotaging heir game-play, and found themselves in the comeback climax pitted against the rival NY Yankees in the pennant playoff game for the division titleThe movie-site in Dyersville, Iowa celebrated its 30th Anniversary in mid-June of 2019 to commemorate "one of the most popular sports movies of all time.