Word: thrillers
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Ever since the appearance of "Wings", some years ago, it has become the custom in Hollywood to turn out a new, and of course more mammoth air thriller about once every six months. Following close upon the heels of "The Dawn Patrol", "Hell's Angels" has at last made its appearance with still larger adjectives and longer superlatives ringing forth in its praise from the publicity department. Not the least impressive of the much heralded features of this picture is that somehow or other the director, Howard Hughes, managed to spend some four millon dollars in the production, which ought...
...sort of play in which the actors are all engaged in some form of nefarious and illegitimate enterprise, constantly flinging at each other such phrases as "Says you," "Is 'at so?", "Yeah?" It is the work of Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison who turned out a creditable thriller last season called Subway Express...
Playwright Owen Davis is to be praised for having written a whopping good thriller. Even the most iconoclastic devotee of mystery fiction could find no flaw, no cheating on the part of the author...
Find The Fox is one of those mystery travesties in which the clichés of standard thriller-drama are aped and inexpertly lampooned. Playwright Frank Martins had unfortunately assumed that melodrama, if badly done, automatically becomes satire. Acted by an incompetent cast, Find The Fox provides three murders, a hissing Japanese, an unscrupulous seducer, a rube detective, sundry other familiar types. Dénouement: the scene is really an informal insane asylum for actors who have grown wool-witted from performing in thriller shows...
...real name is suppressed by the publishers], author of Ex-Mistress, says she met the heroine narrator of this tale in a hospital, heard her story, ghosted it for her. Readers will learn few sensational facts about the medical profession. They will, however, find this book a frank thriller, with villainy and heroics in high relief, easy to read, hard to enthuse over...