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...Inflation, the Thief." Next day, after a breakfast (doughnuts & coffee) with a Negro group at Harlem's Theresa Hotel, the Republican candidate entrained for western Connecticut and Massachusetts, upstate New York and southern Michigan...
...Thief (Harry Popkin; United Artists) takes its inspiration from the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words: it is a sound film in which no one ever speaks. The movie manages to get along quite well without dialogue because it is an uncomplicated chase thriller told with the camera on a simple physical and psychological level. The thief is a nuclear physicist (Ray Milland) employed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he is microfilming top secret documents for a foreign spy ring. When the FBI gets on his trail, he flees to New York, kills...
...click of a microfilm camera, the rustle of papers, the jangle of telephones, the blare of radios, opening & closing doors. Unfortunately, Director Russell Rouse (who also co-authored the screenplay with Producer Clarence Greene) has not used his sound track, or his camera, in a particularly imaginative way. The Thief is an interesting stunt and a fairly exciting thriller. But in telling its story visually, it merely proves what has been obvious ever since sound came to the screen: most movies talk far too much...
...simple theft to multiple murder, but the program is more concerned with the painstaking solving of crimes than with showing their gory execution. Once the entire half-hour was devoted to a verbal third degree, as Webb and his fellow detective, Ed Jacobs, broke down a coolly stubborn jewel thief...
Lesson for Today. In Syracuse, N.Y., a thief broke into Herman Fehlman's auto repair shop, took $298, scrawled "God Is Love" on the cashier's window...