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Last week, after 27 years as a cop, Louis Shoulders resigned from the force "to save the department further embarrassment." Said he: "I got the kidnapers. I got the woman. I got the gun they used. What more did they want me to get? I did not get the money . . . I'm broke." Said the police commission coldly: "We regret that Lieut. Shoulders has seen fit to resign before this investigation has been completed." Shoulders' next date: a federal grand jury hearing this week in Kansas City, where he said he would refuse to testify...
...Heat (Robert Arthur; Columbia), like many another movie thriller, gets off to a fast start and then slows to a walk. An honest cop (Glenn Ford) defies his superiors by poking into the affairs of a big-shot gangster (Alexander Scourby) who seems implicated in a suicide. The bad men retaliate by planting a bomb in Ford's car. but blow up his wife (Jocelyn Brando) by mistake. Aided by Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against Scourby...
...result of her confession and her papers, the cops got busy. But they did not make arrests until they were ready. Then twelve suspects were arrested, and braced themselves to withstand torture, but instead, the police showed them photographs of conspirators keeping rendezvous, passing documents in parks, etc. The pictures had been taken with telephoto lenses from roofs, treetops and other vantage points. As a gratified cop said, "They sang like nightingales...
...backed off the bus, and on came a disheveled-looking off-duty cop. "I wanna help yoush fellowsh," he stammered. "Dose guys is bashtids. I oughta know." He staggered...
Admitting that the proctor had several year's experience as police chief in a neighboring town, officials hasten to point out that he is ununiformed. But when asked about the "campus proctor," many Colgate men answer. "Oh, you mean the cop...