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Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...
Pressure groups, DeVoto recalled, had scared Hollywood into disqualifying almost all minorities from badman roles, and the drive to salve the feelings of friends of the Red Indian was the last straw. Said he: "I protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons...
...patch of wispy hair made of brambles. This, explained Russia's famed Magician Kio, was the head of the U.S. To show his audience what went on inside the head, Kio unscrewed the top. In jumped a masked gunman in evening clothes (U.S. literature), a Western badman (Hollywood), two fat chorus girls (the U.S. theater) and three dwarfs (the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, a slanderer of the U.S.S.R...
After years of hibernation in the South Seas, cinematic hurricanes have returned to Florida. After another long stretch, a big time Capone-style badman has reappeared, and after several uncomfortable roles as farmer, professor, and sundry other sincere people, Edward G. Robinson has joyfully hoped into the gangster's shell to be Johnny Rocco, yah, Johnny Rocco, King of the Underworld. Throw in Humphrey Bogart and a fast moving plot, season with Lionel Barrymore, spice with Lauren Bacall and you have Key Largo, the best gangster show since High Sierra...
...graduated to the editorship of King Features Syndicate in Manhattan when a friendly Chicago cop telephoned him a mysterious summons in 1934. Lait rushed to Chicago and got his most famous scoop, standing a few feet away when G-men shot down Badman John Dillinger...