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Evasive Action. Near Centerville, Va., seven days after a member of a road gang stepped on a hornets' nest and the whole gang scattered for cover, cops were still looking for one who scattered out of sight...
Cowards & Coyotes. Terrified, the boy confessed that he rang the bell as a signal for his gang's nightly "operations"-burglary, smashing windows, bombing. Father Swartsfager ordered him to summon his gang. When the boys showed up, one by one, he started preaching. He called them cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically...
...high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame is one of the very few well-baked tarts in any recent movie. And Paul Kelly has some remarkably effective moments as the man who hangs around her headquarters...
...afternoon last week, the prison trucks pulled up at State Highway Camp 18, a dreary collection of wooden buildings in the piney woods and palmetto lowlands of Georgia's coastal plain. They were bringing back the road gang from its grass-cutting job along Jesup Highway. The Negro convicts were hustled out and herded in front of one of the barracks. There was a confusion of orders and shouting. Then, as quick as a shimmer of summer lightning, something happened...
...coroner's jury tried to piece together the story. Warden Worthy, paunchy and thin-lipped, looking more like a schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged...