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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Shall Go to Korea | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Life of Crime | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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