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...Case of Hitler. "That all decent Americans are against Communism [goes] without saying," he told the delegates. "The problem is no longer one of alerting people to the danger of Communism...
...girl (Leo Penn and Betty Miller) who come together because he is lonely and she is hungry, and share a room pretending to be husband and wife. Theirs is no wartime idyl; the girl loathes her role and denounces the man with a full G.I. bill of wrongs. He-decent, perplexed, finally irritated-cannot mend matters...
Like most Hollywood melodramas of the seamy side, Drive a Crooked Road is competently made, i.e., it efficiently machine-stitches the moviegoer's emotions. Rooney plays his fall guy straight down the middle as a decent, unsmart joe who has the usual worries of a man shorter than most of the girls, with the result that he catches the audience's sympathy and holds it even to an improbable end. It is a modest but genuine triumph of self-restrained playing, and suggests that Mickey might well develop from a fine instinctive performer into a keenly conscious...
...Germans have shed public tears over the passing of Kramer & Co. But since 1950, when the British turned Hameln prison back to the West German Federal Republic, there has been continuous pressure to give the Belsen criminals a "decent burial." "Don't forget," snapped one German, "80% of those people were innocent...
...nation of incipient cop haters when its eyes are glued on Webb's show; that it has gained a new appreciation of the underpaid, long-suffering ordinary policeman, and in many cases its first rudimentary understanding of real-life law enforcement. As Sergeant Friday-a decent, harassed, hard-working fellow-Jack Webb is such a convincingly realistic detective that many a cop has written in to ask if he is not a genuine member of the Los Angeles Police Department...