Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film's plot centers on the efforts of editor Jim Austin (John Forsythe) to clean-up his mythical home town of Kennington. Austin stumbles onto the workings of an interstate gambling syndicate almost accidentally and is drawn into a web of fear and violence as he uncovers details of its operations. Excellent directive touches, like the sudden shift from the scream of a dying man to a blaring horn at the Country Club dance, symbolize Austin's transition from naive upper-middler to a hunted animal. And as his investigation gets nearer the truth, Captive City illustrates just how police...
...precisely because Captive City portrays both gambling syndicate and reform attempt so accurately, it is ineffective as a call for citizen action against crime. For as editor Austin struggles through his crusade he finds roadblocks placed in his path by familiar Chamber-of-Commerce types, who don't want any reform to interfere with business, and by a compromising police bureaucracy. Even the Kindly Local Pastor backs down when it comes to chastizing his own parishioners; he's satisfied with Sunday Morning Christianity. So although Captive City ends with a short tirade against sin by the Tennessee Theotonius, Senator Kefauver...
...Their Heads." Primary day-the first presidential primary in Minnesota since 1916-brought rain, snow and mud. A light vote was expected. But not long after the polls opened, election workers knew something strange was happening. Voters were sloshing through the weather in unexpected numbers. In St. Paul, Duluth, Austin and St. Louis Park (a Minneapolis suburb), where voting machines are used, an astonishing number of voters were going through a tedious process. They had to push aside a metal cover on a vertical write-in slot 1½ in. long, reach up (the slot...
Within 24 hours, an emergency committee in Honolulu raised $5,000 to send six Hawaiians (a Gold Star mother and five veterans) off to Washington to make Connally eat his words. En route, the Hawaiians stopped off at Austin, Texas, and got a rousing reception from old friends in Texas' 36th Division. The reason: a "lost battalion" of the Texas 36th, when encircled by the enemy in France in 1944, was rescued by the U.S. 442nd regimental combat team, which was made up mostly of Hawaiian-born Japanese-Americans. At the time, none of the Texans made inquiries about...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...