Word: bellhops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood type. To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford. But all the while Robert Montgomery wanted to be a gangster. Much against its better judgment his studio at last let him play a sneering homicidal bellhop in Night Must Fall. Cinemactor Montgomery had a high old time murdering Dame May Whitty, and critics thought it was pretty good too. But the U. S. cinemasses, who can spot a phony on the screen as quickly as on the street, stayed away from the box office. They thought Robert...
...know the star always have claimed that he could do a real job if the studio would only give him a chance. The critics confirmed this in their reviews of "Night Must Fall" but the public was only bewildered to see good old light-hearted Bob playing a murderous bellhop. They laughed in the wrong places. Not this time, however. As the tension gathered, in the last half hour of the film and "Silky" Kilmount, now twelfth Earl of Galay, is condemned by his peers to be "hanged by the neck until he be dead" there were no laughs...