Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Must Fall (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer). Any moving picture in which the hero is an egocentric murderer and in which the action consists of his efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London...
...Missing" which stars Victor McLaglen and Walter Connolly is a depressing though well acted picture. Based on the kidnapping of the daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist, the film covers a period of twenty years during which McLaglen, the kidnapper, is sent to prison for a minor crime...
...case of Chaplain Joseph Roussaint of Düsseldorf. Effort was made to prove the chaplain the organizer and ringleader of a united Catholic-Communist front. So little evidence of this could be produced that the prosecutor finally demanded 15 years' imprisonment for the less spectacular crime of "consorting with known Communists...
...gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen because his grandfather was. This week U. S. consular officials in Berlin pleaded fervently that Hirsch was under age when he committed the crime, was influenced by others. Because Hirsch has made a full confession they admitted that only "the intervention of Adolf Hitler or some other high official" could save...
...UPSIDE DOWN MURDERS-Hugh Austin-Crime Club ($2). Feeble account of murder in an amusement park, with a distinctly trick ending...