Word: blackmailed
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...with enthusiastic hatred by Character Actor Vladimir Vladislavsky), is hoarding all the money which his former employer, a Jew, left in his safekeeping. By law, he should have turned over half of it to the Reich. The grocer's daughter and her crippled fiance use this knowledge to blackmail him into setting up the fiance to a store of his own. The grocer's son, when he comes home on leave from the Russian front, is half insane with contempt for his family; and his pathological comrade Kurt, after torturing in turn the cripple and the slave girl...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...
...record of the exact circumstances of the first book publication of Emily's poems, after her death. It is a valuable book, rich in detail, illustrated with 16 fine photographs and sketches. Its careful report of intellectual brutality, spite, frauds, lawsuits, jealousies, of poems and letters destroyed, attempted blackmail fabrications and hoarded literary wealth, would be almost unbearable if it were not for the glimpses of Emily one gets beyond the foreground quarrels, as the townspeople of Amherst used to see her in the garden of Squire Dickinson's big house...
Confusion is the keynote of a plot that includes larceny, blackmail, multiple murder, and the whodunit show's inevitable quota of hardboiled--romance. Director Eduard Dmytryk has handled this turbulent story, with its emphasis on strangulation, cudgeling and other more ingenious forms of violence, with good taste extraordinary for Hollywood...
PARTY LINE-Louise Baker-Whittlesey House ($2.50). Nostalgic glimpses of Mayfield, Calif, a generation ago show how Blossom Tramlin, the town menace, becomes the town heroine; how Miss Elmira stops a run on the bank by general blackmail. Soap opera sentiment and humor...