The Mr. MOVIES
Across
- 1. hijinks & problems vex mr. hoobs who is beset by pouty kids, son-in-law with roving eye, boss who visits without warning etc
- 3. titular character is a con man in Africa blackmailed into leading an entire tribe to relocation site, this journey having mant echoes of the biblical Moses tale.
- 4. the Blandings family decides to leave NYC for country house fixer-upper, but nothing is easily fixed up;
- 7. naive scoutmaster appointed to dead senator's office, gets involved in a boys camp charity & is framed for fraud by bigwigs who want the land the camp is to occupy
- 9. WWII cargo officer seeks combat assignment, is blocked by tyrannical capt. who seeks promotion but needs his officer to achieve it; crew forges letter of transfer for their beloved cargo officer
Down
- 1. small town greeting card poet & bassoonist inherits a fortune, does not handle wealth as the rich deem proper; starts giving money away to needy who apply while fighting challenge to his inheritance, winds up in a sanity hearing before winning out
- 2. titular character is a melon farmer & Viet Nam vet resists mob protection racket scheme is jailed for assault, takes steps to bring mob to ruin refuses mob
- 4. titular character seeks musical composition career, winds up teaching hs music for 30 yrs while raising deaf son & working on symphony which he conducts at surprise retirement party, ex-students comprising orchestra
- 5. career of comedian from teen to senior citizen; he becomes estranged from his brother/agent and his daughter, is blackballed by Ed Sullivan, makes off color remark about Davy Crockett tv show on his own show and loses that vehicle, finally accepts retirement & performs with brother at home for the aged
- 6. famous detective faces mental decline after WWII while tending to bees & reconciling old case
- 8. elderly man prints counterfeit 1$ bills to make do, is hunted by Treasury agents for years until captured by T-man who ironically befriended him yrs back