Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Sheridan kills her ex-lover. Then his vengeful widow (played with notable intensity by Marta Mitrovich) and a crooked art dealer (well played by Steven Geray) try to blackmail her. Her efforts to keep the truth from her husband bring on other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...
...party has its own schools, its own courts, its own system of taxation which collects membership dues and transacts other business-from Saturday night dances to political blackmail. Il Migliore is assisted by a team of able department heads...
This gave the Russians, at least, some slight ground for yelling atomic blackmail. Baruch did nothing to improve this atmosphere by harping on "punishments" for atomic violators. "Punishment" is not a diplomatic word, and in the context in which Baruch used it, not a realistic one. (If a nation is immoral enough to commit a major violation, it is probably immoral enough to refuse punishment, whatever its treaty commitments...
...communist or fascist forces to infiltrate AVC and divert it from its liberal goals. We propose no purges. We are merely spelling out what is implicit in AVC's program: that no communist or fascist can honestly join AVC. The cry of 'witch-hunt' is an attempt at political blackmail to confuse the issue...
...turns out in the film, the story involves a young widow, Vivian Rutledge (Bacall) and a mysteriously all-knowing private dick by the name of Marlowe (Bogart). Marlowe is hired to investigate the facts behind the blackmailing of Vivian's maniae young sister Carmen; but as he investigates, he unearths mystery after mystery and murder after murder instead of mere blackmail. Amidst the razzle-dazzle, the spectator knows nothing except that Marlowe is never surprised...