Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...
...Thousands of miles away, young men in U.S. uniforms die because of his crookedness. His younger son-rather uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness of his excuses. Among the lesser plot problems: will the dead boy's mother (Mady Christians) ever accept the fact of his death...
After a rough and tumble fight in North End early yesterday morning, police captured Theodore Voutiritsa, 38, who they named as the last of the "Co-operative Gang," part of a long-existent crime fellowship that was responsible for the January 9 Coop stickup...
...Naked City" is without doubt the most successful of the pseudo-documentary crime films that have appeared in the last few years. As the magazine blurbs have emphasized, the picture was made in New York at the places where the events supposedly happened, and the effect of taking the murders out into genuine open air is both refreshing and convincing...
Cambridge's minor crime wave struck home yesterday, when the Harvard Radio Network found approximately $55 missing from its offices. Both University and city police have been called in to help unwrangle the theft...