Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evil My Love (Paramount) is only as evil as the Johnston Office will bear. A dashing, crooked artist (Ray Milland) so deeply fascinates a missionary's late-Victorian widow (Ann Todd) that she becomes his front in a particularly ugly plot for blackmail, leading to murder. Thanks chiefly to Ann Todd's able and sympathetic performance, it is possible to guess that essentially this is a study of the disintegration, through sexual passion, of a morally delicate character. But the script can never say as much-still less examine the facts. Its only sufficient explanation of the widow...
Whose Advice? When Labor Lord Addison offered a weak compromise, Lord Salisbury rejected it in anger: "Unworthy of consideration . . . the government has tried to blackmail this House." They voted - 177-to-81 against the bill...
...going to war to get what they wanted. Militarism is not one of the numerous moral spirochetes in the Communist mind. The Reds understand very clearly the importance of military power, but they prefer not to use it if they can reach their objectives by propaganda, conspiracy or blackmail. The Communists are not likely to unify the U.S. with a military Pearl Harbor...
...first place, the U.S. is a land of such glowing opportunity that no candidate need bother to have a brain. Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) cannot even spell-but, with the help of a smart pressagent (Peter Lind Hayes) and a bit of blackmail, he very nearly makes the White House...
Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...