Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little anticlimactic-but not too much. Bogart knows his way perfectly around this sort of plot. He finds out who murdered his wife and his best friend (he is accused of murdering them), disposes of a petty crook (Clifton Young) who has latched onto him for blackmail, and gets set for the ultimate clinch with Miss Bacall...
...give up a list of advertisers who supply the University is a form of blackmail, they said, ignoring the fact that no advertiser has ever complained on being approached, and that the procedure has been standard practice here and elsewhere for a number of years. Lehman Hall lot their ethical principles down long enough to imply that the books might get their list some other way, though the University would not give it. The move may very well be, as claimed, part of a plan to save money and at the same time turn over a new moral leaf...
...With all these handicaps-and after all, Beethoven was deaf-Hedda has some wicked weapons, and knows how to use them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure bitchery!" Hedda delights...
...appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet's ferocious bullying eventually goads him into...
...Sicily there is no bloodier bandit than Salvatore Giuliano. A swart, 25-year-old ex-black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian, Giuliano is a hero as revered as Robin Hood. Sicilian police have long since promised not to bother him provided that he kills no policemen. On Palermo's walls, signs calling for "Giuliano for President" are common sights...