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...Boomerang! (American). A first-rate piece of journalistic, "locale" (Stamford, Conn.) moviemaking (TIME, March...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
...place-to base fictional pictures on fact, and, more importantly, to shoot them not in painted studio sets but in actual places. In making this kind of realistic "locale" movie, 20th Century-Fox has been the leader-with The House on 92nd St., 13 Rue Madeleine and Boomerang...
...Boomerang achieved a physical and moral portrait of an entire community. Kiss of Death, working in a darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...