Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...
...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...
After more than a year of production, and more financial trials and tribulations than a cross-eyed auditor, Ivy Films next week will preview its shoestring celluloid fantasy, "A Touch of the Times...
Slattery's Hurricane (20th Century-Fox) pins a Hollywood medal on an unsung specialty of the armed forces, U.S. naval aviation's hurricane-tracking service off the Florida coast. But it is the same old celluloid medal-thin, transparent and chipped with wear...
Back in the U.S. after three months in Europe as a self-styled "celluloid diplomat," Actor Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb filed a tart report: "From what I have seen, the only country in the world today that is safe from Communism is Russia...