Word: burnett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-boiled Writer Ernest Hemingway started something when he published his first popular book (The Sun Also Rises]: earnest critics have thought they discerned among his imitators the beginnings of a School. But the two most outstanding followers of Hemingway, William Riley Burnett and Dashiell Hammett, seem to have been not so much started by his example as let loose by it. Both have a manner that owes its start, perhaps, to Hemingway; but both have branched off into a patented, individual style of storytelling. No pioneers of language, they have been content to follow their leader into new country...
...will have a hard time putting down one of Burnett's books before you have finished it; The Silver Eagle is no exception. As in Little Caesar, the scene is contemporary Chicago, but this time the hero is no gangster but a racketeer perforce. Francis Cecil Harworth (ne plain Keogh) has come up from scratch to a position that includes the ownership of several nightclubs, a gambling house, a Rolls-Royce and a limited but attractive choice of women. All his businesses are strictly legal with the exception of the gambling house. Harworth is a hard young man with...
...Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame succeeded to a baronetcy fortnight ago and last week applied for unemployment insurance-the first British baronet on the Dole...
Iron Man (Universal). Lewis ("Lew") Ayres, recently voted "King of the Movies" in a poll conducted by the newspaper with the largest circulation in the U. S.,? is hopelessly miscast as a light-heavyweight fighter in a fumbled version of W. R. Burnett's novel. The novel is one of the few accurate pieces ever written about the prize ring but it has been adapted in a way that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning...
...more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only...