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“Till the rains begin. Then this old river will come down out of the mountains yonder and carry you and this bridge — and a dozen bridges with it — to hell and gone.”

Since the East End School was way to hell and gone across town and the children who lived east of Main Street attended there, I will not bother with it.

“Theorists often pounce on a datum and interpret it to hell and gone,” said Mumma.

"They've shrunk to hell and gone, sir," said the Bo's'n, with superfluous explanation.

Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is, and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hell and gone.