Word: boomerangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City (20th Century-Fox) is one up on most movies in two ways. The screen play, by Richard Murphy, who wrote Boomerang!, is unusually thoughtful and pointed. And the picture is directed by Robert Siodmak, one of those quaint, old-fashioned craftsmen who still believe that a movie should move and be visually interesting...
...Dear Guru." But the public also began to hear of an odd-duck Wallace who, in an awkward, headlong way, took up tennis and boomerang-throwing, who Indian-wrestled with an aide in his office between conferences. Before coming to Washington he had left his grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when...
...Street with No Name (20th Century-Fox) is still another of Fox's well-made semi-documentaries (Call Northside 777, Boomerang!, etc.). This time the story is based on FBI files. The subject: postwar gangsterism...
...Northside 777 (20th Century-Fox). One of the current trends in movies is a tendency to shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
...world," he cried, "I accuse President [Juan Jose] Arevalo of Guatemala of fomenting and supplying arms for a revolution in Nicaragua. If this revolution breaks out, it may result in a Central American conflagration. I am ready to repel this aggression and it may turn out to be a boomerang for Arevalo, who is interfering in the internal affairs of Nicaragua...