Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conscious escape artist and bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...
Dealing with the latter problem, the film describes the symbiotic association of a cop and his "stoolie." The cop rises from a rookie patrolman to a plain-clothes lieutenant on the strength of tips from his informer. In exchange, the "stool pigeon" receives pardons and paroles for crimes he commits in other districts, and in the process, he progresses for apple snatching in Hay-market Square to the $2,500,000 theft. As the camera moves gracefully from one non sequitur to the next, the fatherly policeman is alternately hopeful and disillusioned in his efforts to reform the informer...
...yards away in the White House, might easily have heard. Its hood was propped open to keep the motor cool, its rear end listed to one side under an uneven burden of piled-up duffle in the back seat, and its muffler was all too obviously missing. A sweating cop whistled the flivver to a stop, and out popped Wayne Morse. Characteristically, Mrs. Morse stayed in the car and said nothing...
...cop started to make out a ticket, Tourist Morse started to talk. He had lost the muffler in suburban Bethesda, he explained. If the cop would just have a heart, he could fix it himself at the Hains Point tourist camp and save a few dollars. Under the torrent of Morse's argument the policeman relented, tore up the ticket and wearily directed Morse to the camp. Last week Morse was still noisily disturbing the peace of Washington, still arguing endlessly and effectively...
...culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent; plausible ; a bit of a shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist...