Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...
...Walk Alone (Paramount) brings Burt Lancaster, a distinctly old-fashioned gangster, back from stir, to find that his onetime partners have become nightclub owners and won't cut him in. When he tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth...
...cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October as he drove to town in his jeep. Adds the ballad,* written by his gangster brother, Earl...
...backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir Popomatov: "No iron curtain shall ever rise between us-none shall raise Chinese walls between progressive eastern...
...wordy script is often highly entertaining; yet some of the sharpest stuff is purely visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...