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...delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
...headed right (with his pistol hand closest to the camera). Anybody shot was assumed dead, unless the audience was notified to the contrary. The stock situations had also been worked out-the stage robbery, the Indian attack, the big stampede, the necktie party, the chair-throwing brawl in the barroom-and in the subtitles, the dialogue had been perfected: "We'll head 'em off at the pass...
Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...
Accordingly, the makers of the second cinemattempt have decided to try the old black magic once more. This time it doesn't really work, but the play itself is principally to blame. It was never much good-barroom O'Neill at best, liberally sprinkled with intellectual sawdust ("I don't want to think; I want to drink"). The wages of sin are paid in dreary installments, but the writer is careful to make the sentimental deductions that most producers consider necessary for social security. The heroine follows the primrose path all the way, and finds that...
...become uneasier by the degree to which they can place themselves in a drama. Some children prefer adult crime thrillers precisely because they seem less realistic. To children, daggers and sharp instruments are more scary than guns, a real-life prizefight more upsetting than a western's barroom brawl...