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...idea. Why not have singing commercials set to really good music? Before the ad man could say J. Walter Thompson, he had consulted promising young composer and Guggenheim Fellow Gail Kubik (best known for his score of the Air Force film Memphis Belle), and read him a little soap-flakes jingle that begins by asking: Any runs today, stocking runs today...
Sayde was a middle-aged lady whose husband made his bundle in real estate. She got interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said...
When Sayde could finally talk, she told the cops about her dealings with Moe and his brother. They traced a thug named Abe Greenburg to New York, where he confessed that Moe and Gail had put him up to the job. They also found the man with the gun, a short, swart ex-convict, Joe Miller. The boys were pretty mad. Between them they'd made only...
Greenburg turned state's evidence. Moe, Gail and Miller were charged with armed robbery. Gail pleaded guilty, then attempted suicide. Last week, Moe the gonif and Miller, his hired punk, were convicted. Yiddish for thief...
Alan Ladd handles both girls and perils with his customary cold, efficient grace; Gail Russell is very easy to look at; and William Bendix, as usual, is a benefit to the show-though he is given nothing much to set his teeth in. Well-mounted, well-played, well-tailored in every way, the picture even suggests that it might be taking place in some such city as Calcutta. Yet it will be impossible for a melodramaddict to feel that he hasn't already been there a hundred times...