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Last week the News did more. It sent veterarn Police Reporter Harry McCormick to Denver to blow the whistle on crime there. Once, kidnaped by a member of the notorious Barrow-Parker gang (1935), McCormick got an exclusive interview and persuaded the kidnaper to vouch for its authenticity by pressing his fingerprints on the windshield of McCormick's car before he was let go. McCormick had hoped to keep his visit to Denver under cover. But the Post ran him down within 24 hours, politely offered him a car, a photographer and a look at the files. This week...
Filmed in sharp contrasts of shadow and brightness, Black Hand evokes its period and locale with shabby, tin-ceilinged tenement flats and narrow streets swarming with immigrant life. With considerable effect, it conveys the ruthlessness of the Black Hand gang, the fear of the victims and the helplessness of police in whom no one dares to confide...
...mood proves strong enough to survive the story, though at times it almost flickers away. A young Italian immigrant (Gene Kelly) sets out to avenge his father, who was murdered by the gang for trying to report an extortion threat. Persuaded to organize the browbeaten community into resistance, Kelly is flung by the hoodlums into the first mass meeting, battered, bleeding and almost dead. Then he hits on the more cautious idea of sending a veteran Italian-American detective (J. Carrol Naish) to Italy to dig up criminal records that will enable the U.S. to deport its immigrant thugs...
...twelve is a puzzle to her schoolmates, a trial to her teachers, a constant irritant who sends her unsympathetic father's blood pressure zooming. She lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes...
...Harvard Auxiliary Fireman's job was not always all work and no play. The group took on the aspect of an informal club when there was no work to be done and this is the part the old gang remembers best. "Everybody always showed up for those," Perry grinned when asked about the monthly banquets held upstairs in the Faculty Club. After dinner the Boston Fire Chief or other notables in the fire prevention world would speak for a while on modern techniques and use of equipment, and the rest of the evening would be taken up with sports movies...