Word: laureen
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...Tired after a day of shopping, Laureen Bernstein, now 24, a Brooklyn bank teller, was about to leave a local branch of the Korvettes department store chain when a store detective grabbed her from behind. "Hey, you!" he shouted. "What are you doing? What's wrong?" asked the terrified Bernstein. She told psychiatrists later that she feared she was about to be thrown into a car, stabbed or raped. The store detectives suspected Bernstein of being an accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein...
...further encumbered with an unfortunate supporting cast. They play a variety of mawkish roles, including a folksy old man from Ohio, a beautiful crippled waif, and the inevitable bad girl with the good heart. Ida Lupino, who plays the bad girl, might be described as a very square Laureen Bacall. She emotes...
...without any of the dilettantism of the modern school of gentleman sleuths. Despite his ignorance of Egyptian sculpture or criminal psychology, the inspector keeps the show well in hand. The center problem for solution is one of proving innocence. The most naive tyro might guess that the hands of Laureen, lovely revue star and suspect, are unstained by crime but it takes a masterly piece of detecting to clear her of the web of indicting circumstance...