Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Kelly's Blues (Warner), the second movie that Jack Webb-the big gun on TV's Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper...
...program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports to 25% of the week's programming. But arrangements have already been made to acquaint Britons with I Love Lucy (scheduled to compete with BBC's prize variety hour, The Ted Ray Show), Dragnet, Hopalong Cassidy, Ed Murrow's Person to Person, and Billy Graham. Last fortnight the contracts were signed for the import of Liberace, complete with candelabra and toothy smile. But many of the home-grown products will bear a resemblance to U.S. shows. Example: Sunday Night at the Palladium, featuring such stars...
...Star Jack Webb built an entire Dragnet around Irish coffee. From Ireland came Count Cyril McCormack, John's son, sales director of John Locke & Co. Irish distillery, to see what was going on at the Buena Vista. From the Buena Vista, Bartender Jack Koeppler made a pilgrimage to Ireland and was guest of honor at a luncheon tendered by Deputy Prime Minister William Norton. "I might have been Saint Patrick himself, come to throw the snakes out," says Washington-born German-descended Bartender Koeppler...
World's Greatest Audience. To satisfy network needs, and develop competent hacks and sparkling geniuses, both NBC and CBS have plans to dragnet the nation for new writing talent. NBC's plan, more ambitious, aims at attracting established fiction writers to TV and developing new ones. Five well-known U.S. novelists, including James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, are already interested. NBC also plans to put a dozen dramatists on staff at regular salaries, hoping to prove that security can quicken the dramatic muse even more than hunger...
...that must be solved in determining from what exchange, and in precisely what sequence of numerals, the kidnaper is phoning his instructions. The film ends in the customary blaze of guns, and Kelly is happily reunited with his family. But the film's considerable effect, like that of Dragnet, is built up largely from the detailed, absorbing explanation of the routines, not in this case of police work, but of a telephone-communications center...