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...stockholders, Du Pont's lean, able President Crawford H. Greenewalt last week totted up the score on a year of "transition from a sellers' to a buyers' market." His cheerful finding: "No serious dislocation or detriment to the company's business...
Name & Address. In Oklahoma City, police decided that the man they were looking for was Crawford Sleeper, who in burglarizing an apartment exchanged his pants for a better pair, left behind in the pockets a letter addressed to himself and a withholding-tax statement...
Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...
...good script and fine direction. Stark's campaign speeches are the best example. They clearly show the transition from the rough, sincere desire of a man to serve the public to a skilled politician's desire to please the folks at home. Up for Academy Award recognition, along with Crawford, are John Ireland and Mercedes McCambridge for their portrayal of Governor Stark's cynical hatchetman and hatchetwoman. They should get their Oscars, too. And the same goes for director Robert Rosson for weaving a fast-moving narrative, a penetrating character analysis, and a moral into one fine move...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; with Broderick Crawford (TIME...