Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia has taken a fine book on slums and their crime, and run it through the Hollywood kettle until most of its guts have been boiled out. The residue is kept well out of the standard murder movie level, however, by an infallible combination: fine photography and Humphrey Bogart...
...Shakespeare, who placed Caesar's murder in the Capitol, almost a kilometer east of the Campus Martius...
...bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn't blink at plotting the murder of a blabbing witness. Charlie finally feels driven to suicide...
...Pegler found a silver lining. "We have had two salutary killings within the last year," Pegler wrote, in which strikebreakers were acquitted of murder charges after shooting two pickets. Said he, with satisfaction: "[Each] got his picket . . . Henceforth, the good citizen under such attack . . . will have a right to pick a picket and shoot him in the head...
Prize for a Truth. Marquand's big project was the Mr. Moto series-deftly continued murder stories about an obsequious Japanese detective. He had discovered that he could do the Mr. Moto stories in half the time by dictating them, and he decided to take on Apley too. Most of his friends thought it was a mistake and few besides his publisher, the late Alfred McIntyre of Little, Brown, encouraged him. When it won him the Pulitzer Prize, the first thing he did was to get on the phone and rib the people who had told him to stick...