Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From title to final fade-out there is nothing new, nothing unexpected in this satisfying grade-B picture. But at least nothing is left out. First there is the stock shot of the Manharian sky-line. Then the murder, the sirens and the police-radio, the scene in the D. A.'s office with the reporters. After a short sequence in the jail with the stircrazy cell-mate, the court-room scene begins. It involves a dead-locked jury and a new witness before everything winds up happily, the mystery is unraveled, and the newspaper headlines proclaim the verdict. Amazingly...
...listeners had read Rupert Hughes' campaign biography of Thomas Dewey they knew all this and a good deal more: Dewey's record as District Attorney of New York, with 79% convictions in 3,253 General Sessions Court cases, 14 convictions in first-degree murder cases (six acquittals), 9,703 convictions in 14,063 misdemeanor cases, along with the head lined smashing of the policy ring, the break-up of a prostitution syndicate. Dewey the Racket-Buster drew crowds, but stories, reputation and record told little of Dewey the Presidential Candidate. And to Westerners properly suspicious...
Five days after the Pilchard murder, Collick, famished and tattered, ran plump into the arms of police. He and the other prisoners were safely transported to Harford County jail, on the other side of Chesapeake...
...State's Attorney William G. Kerbin, commenting on the storming of the Snow Hill jail: "First we've got to find out who did it. ... It is my job to prosecute the men arrested by the sheriff. Ask him." No action could be taken until after the murder case was settled, explained Sheriff Hall, refreshed by his sleep. But "there has to be an investigation," he pronounced...
...people are demanding one." Having narrowly escaped another discreditable lynching, Maryland quickly charged Collick and Selby with murder, Manuel with shooting with intent to kill...