Word: gangsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
...Factor was really kidnaped, or if his story was a hoax, aimed at taking the pressure off him elsewhere (Factor was wanted at the time in England on a swindling charge). Brennan also wondered-along with a lot of other newsmen and a good many Chicago cops-if Illinois Gangster Roger Touhy, convicted of kidnaping and sentenced to 99 years in prison after being identified by Factor as one of his abductors, had not, in fact, been framed...
...Reporter Brennan the book had been a matter of conscience ever since his nose for news told him that Jake the Barber had no B.O. Said he last week: "People are asking me why I am defending 'that gangster.' Look, here's a poor sucker who never had a chance to put his case before the public. I've got more personal satisfaction out of it than you can imagine...
Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan...
Stylized Violence. Though these five Eyes have latched onto the classiest clientele scores of lesser peepers operate on IV. Hollywood sound stages, dominated until a few years ago by all sorts of B movies from gangster yarns to Abbott-and-Costello comedies, now harbor an endless succession of Private Eye productions (they are B pictures too, but nobody calls them that). Hollywood prop men account for more blank cartridges in a week than the L.A. police force can match with live bulletsin the line of duty in a year Everyone is getting into the act. At Warners, where TV production...