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Down Three Dark Streets (Edward Small; United Artists), for a change, is one in which the cops are not the robbers. An FBI agent (Kenneth Tobey) is killed while pursuing an inquiry at a private house. Another agent (Broderick Crawford) is assigned to catch the killer. To do that, he has to break all three cases the dead agent was working on: a filling-station murder, a hot-car shove, a small-time extortion caper...
...first case. Actor Crawford runs into resistance from a torpedo's well-kept woman (Martha Hyer). "I don't like men staring at me before lunch," she bridles, but soon goes on to tell what it's like to be a lamster's widow. "I thought it would last forever, like one of them watches you don't have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds...
...improving on nature in Hollywood, the screen's silent sirens wore only two kinds of powder-white and flesh-colored-both as pasty as dough. Factor developed new. softer powder shades, more complimentary rouge tones, and an easily applied foundation grease. Soon such stars as Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford and Clara Bow were wearing Factor makeup off the movie lots, and U.S. women, who had previously thought that any makeup made them look "fast," started clamoring for the natural-looking powder and rouge. When Jean Harlow suddenly became a platinum blonde, Max Factor was ready with...
Night People. Capitalist meets commissar in Berlin and Writer-Producer-Director Nunnally Johnson bangs their heads together; with Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford (TIME, March...
Night People. Capitalist meets commissar in Berlin and Writer-Producer-Director Nunnally Johnson bangs their heads together; with Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford (TIME, March...