Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dialogue is mostly stock gangster talk, and the actors, generally accenting the wrong words, throw their eyes around as though they were at a tennis match. All the same, the film has moments of hard cynicism. The credibly forlorn scenes between the heroine and her brother (Arthur Kennedy) barely suggest a relationship that the Johnston Office might have scrutinized more closely. And Ladd's scenes with a cold and seedy blonde (June Havoc) show a consistent disconcern with what Hollywood knows as real love. Trying for and missing the punch of Double Indemnity, waltz-paced Deadline is further debilitated...
Chicago Hoodlum Roger Touhy, serving a 99-year term for the 1933 kidnaping of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, won a $15,000 settlement in his $500,000 libel suit against 20th Century-Fox for its movie, Roger Touhy, Gangster. Roger charged that the film had maligned him grossly. He planned to use the $15,000 in his "fight for freedom," i.e., to beat the kidnaping rap, plus a concurrent 199-year sentence for his role in a 1942 jailbreak...
White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular comeback in a drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...
Bartender Red O'Shea's vision comes after Gangster Scar shoots a dreamy rival for the love of a moll named Lu. As Lu holds the dying rival in her arms, Red sees
White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular comeback in a drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...