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...sleuths are Ken Lynch of The Plainclothesman and Ralph Bellamy of Man Against Crime, who have spent the last five years laboriously tracking down evildoers. Most TV cops and private eyes have a tendency to lose their revolvers at crucial points in the narrative. This mishap insures a bang-up last-minute fist fight to get the gun back and has the added attraction, of taking the viewers' minds off the idiocy of the plot...
Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the ancestral seat of the Dunbar family...
...Plot. The story began last spring, when two undergraduates, A. R. ("Tony") Thompson and David R. Jones, decided that Oxford needed a bang-up spoof. It had not really had one since after World War I, when an undergraduate posed as "the eminent Dr. Emil Busch" of Frankfurt and lectured on psychoanalysis. Thompson and Jones started their 1952 campaign by capturing the Heretics Club. They first joined as members, then worked their way up to positions as chairman and organizing secretary. Without telling their 120 fellow Heretics what they were up to, they made up a list of guest speakers...
Much of the dialogue in Springfield Rifle misfires, but in the rugged performances of Cooper, Paul Kelly and David Brian and some bang-up battle sequences, the picture manages to hit the mark...
This is the sort of bang-up action picture that Hollywood often does well, perhaps because it has had so much experience at it. The Turning Point is a good case in point. Leanly written by Warren Duff, crisply acted by a competent cast and directed with vigor by William Dieterle, it is a smartly tooled thriller. Best scene: a tingling climax, in which a syndicate killer stalks Reporter Holden through a crowded boxing arena, trying to draw a bead on him from catwalks high above the stadium...