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Death after Sunset. In the unlighted, unpoliced locations and shantytowns, the native criminals who prey on the whites have their hideouts. They prey on the blacks as well. The respectable, hardworking majority are utterly at the mercy of the gangsters (the most notorious gang calls itself "the Russians"). No one dares go out at night. Black homes, like white homes, are barricaded. At dusk, crime begins. People are murdered in the streets, knifed, "chopped" with axes. Clothing is taken from the victims and the bodies are left for the night-soil removers to find. Though most black gangsters now carry...
...Sunset & Main. Hollywood still strains the outsider's credulity and the insider's nerves. It still has more feuds than Tennessee, more phonies than Times Square, queerer logic than Wonderland, and stranger mores than almost any place in or out of this world. But, fearful of its reputation-which at times has been several degrees below zero-it knocks itself out trying to convince the world that Sunset Boulevard is just an extension of Main Street. For the past decade, the U.S. has been flooded with pictures of stars scrubbing their floors, baking cakes, sewing clothes and doing...
...other inmates turn against him. Eventually, of course, the old folks re-embrace their benefactor, and Belvedere ends in a damp rush of sentimentality that finds the nurse and preacher in each other's arms, the oldsters acting kittenish again, and Webb walking jauntily off into the sunset...
...technique, he said, and was to knock, then pose as a salesman if he found people in the apartments he entered. He told police he had restricted his activity to between a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset, since he knew that daytime breaking and entering was only a misdemeanor, whereas in the night it was a felony...
...Hole (Paramount), Producer-Director Billy Wilder's first movie since Sunset Boulevard, gleefully dissects human beings at their worst. The picture is clever, original, technically expert, and carries an occasional sharp sting of truth. But it runs a good idea into the ground and leaves a bad taste in the mouth...