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...Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three of a Kind | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...nominees for overseers, five of whom will be elected for six-year terms, are Monte M. Lemann '03, Walter S. Franklin '04, Ralph Lowell '12, Frederick C. Crawford '13, Rustin McIntosh '14, Roland L. Redmond '15, Henry B. Cabot K. Meyer Kestnbaum '18, Lawrence Taylor '22, Charles E. Bohlen '27, and C. Douglas Dillon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powell Cabot New Marshal | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Eastern Michigan (Detroit): Professor B. J. Whiting will speak at dinner at Veterana Memorial Building, 6:30 p.m. December 27, Secretary: David C. Crawford '36, 401 St. Jean Avenue, Detroit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 19 Harvard Clubs to Sponsor Xmas Parties for Students | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

...murders in the first fifteen minutes set the pace for "The Mob," a B+ cops-and-robbers about waterfront racketeering. Oscar-winning Broderick Crawford has a grand time slugging, drinking, and wisecracking his way through the picture as a city detective who goes underground to crack a crime syndicate...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

...that defied the Kefauver Committee" and reveals the shocking truth about "those sixteen unsolved murders." This is hogwash in the best ad-man tradition; the film states that any relation to real persons or places is purely coincidental. But "The Mob" still has plenty to recommend it in Crawford's excellent acting, its snappy dialogue in the best Raymond Chandler style, and the constant suspense of characters in double roles. After an hour or so of general mayhem in alleys, bars, cheap hotels, and black sedans, the Law finally closes in with the aid of several cagy scientific gimmicks...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

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