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...beginning of. a Congress, when many of the elevator operators and Capitol policemen are new on their jobs. McConaughy. 38, and a big six-footer with a shock of grey hair, is often mistaken for a Congressman himself. For a few days he enjoys the luxury of a cop stopping traffic and waving him through a red light, or an elevator operator whisking him directly to the floor he wants. Then he becomes an ordinary correspondent again, pounding his marble-floored beat and listening to debate...
...script makes a couple of pious passes at pointing a moral; it says that the community-the greedy tavernkeeper, a weak cop, some hotheaded and vicious citizens-is as much to blame for what happens as the young delinquents are, but it is hard to believe in such talk...
...biggest wiretapping agencies in the U.S. are the FBI, which on an average day has between 150 and 200 taps working, and the New York City Police Department. A state law allows any New York cop above the rank of sergeant to apply for a court order to wiretap, even when investigating misdemeanors. Orders are easy to get. Now & then, the cops tap public phones, listen in on hundreds of conversations in the hope of picking up leads on bookies or prostitutes...
...Texas for only four years, but he died last week a famous man. Before taking office, Hodges was just an ordinary sort of fellow; he grew up in a little cow town named Aubrey, spent a year at Texas Christian University, got a Depression job as a cop in the county seat, went to war as a coast guardsman, came home and started running for sheriff. He made it the second time...
...dogged probing of the personalities involved. Kantor's wordy persistence is partially rewarded. Joan Lorring emerges as an earnest simpleton who so yearns for freedom that she risks her life in return for a brief holiday from jail. Lloyd Bridges painfully grows in stature from a conniving cop to a man ready to count his world well lost for love. But, as often happens in the theater, it is Villain Gregory with his unrepentant, double-dealing philosophy who comes most alive on the stage: the only unconvincing note in his performance is his being outwitted by the hero...