Word: cains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maine, to the Cape, or just to any cool place on weekends has also terminated almost all "live" jam sessions for the summer. However, the appearance of two new excellent jazz programs on the radio has done much to fill this void. Wednesday evenings at 7:30 o'clock, Cain's "Cain Is Able" pay the keep for half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music...
...most needed was to have its cattle fenced in. "Miss Edna" is Mrs. Edna Cain Daniel, editor & publisher of the Quitman, Ga. Free Press (circ...
Unless you're a timeaddict or have let Henry Luce spoil your fun with his picture mag, you'll find Paramount's MacMurray-Stanwyck-Edward G. Robinson thriller good and exciting entertainment, although you may be able to knock a few dents in the plot. James M. Cain writes tough, sharp prose, and judging from "Double Indemnity," his stuff makes even better moviegoing than reading...
Double Indemnity (Paramount) is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama. James M. Cain's novelette was carnal and criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...
Scripter Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) is himself no mean writer of hard-boiled melodrama. With his help Director Wilder and his players manage admirably to translate into hard-boiled cinema James Cain's hard-boiled talents...