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Word: angeles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of a connubial team for extinction of the other, and then proceeds to weave an intricate net of suspicion and terror surrounding the discovery by the victim of the evil plans afoot. This idea although interesting and teeming with suspense has already been used in "Suspicion," "Angel Street," and "Dark Waters," and becomes tedious in time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/23/1945 | See Source »

...months, National Tea Co., sixth largest U.S. retail grocery chain, had squirmed under the critical gaze of one of its new stockholders. The critic: John F. Cuneo, cold-eyed, round-faced owner of The Cuneo Press, Inc., biggest U.S. printers as well as "angel" of Liberty and a string of other magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Cuneo Steps In | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Stranger (by Leslie Reade; produced by Shepard Traube) is Producer Traube's first Broadway show since he vaulted to prominence with Angel Street. Like Angel Street, it is a thriller laid in Victorian London. Unlike Angel Street, it is sadly lacking in thrills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Patrick Hamilton, creator of "Angel Street," wrote a plausible psychological murder in "Hangover Square." Hollywood's "Hangover Square" tries hard to be a big, had horror picture, and it would probably not have succumbed to maudlin melodrama in the grips of the original story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/20/1945 | See Source »

...thing about RKO's quite unoriginal "Experiment Perilous." Seeing things extremely realistically throughout, the camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/16/1945 | See Source »

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