Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paradine Case (Selznick) stars Gregory Peck as a gifted, happily married English lawyer who falls in love with the client he is defending. Mrs. Paradine (Valli) is accused of poisoning her blind husband, and Lawyer Peck recklessly sets out to pin the crime on the dead husband's valet (Louis Jourdan). In his infatuation for his client, he is incapable of imagining that she may be guilty. In his jealousy, he suspects an affair between the valet and the accused lady. Making a headlong effort to defend her, he brings on a suicide and his own virtual ruin...
...Radio's chillers, under the disapproving glares of U.S. parents & teachers (TIME, March 24), had had a bad year, but things were looking brighter. Last week CBS spread itself handsomely on an old, solidly successful crime show, Suspense. The program was extended to 55 minutes, moved to a good early evening spot (Sat., 8 p.m.) and placed in the capable hands of Robert Montgomery, a past cinemaster at leering and bloodletting. Montgomery handles the show's gory details as narrator. As occasional actor, he may recreate some of his grislier movie roles (Night Must Fall, Rage in Heaven...
...Crime Pays. In Springfield, Mo., Clerk Harry Nicholson announced that hereafter guests of the county jail could pay for their meals, if they had the price, and thereby shorten their terms...
Ballistic exports, still examining the two smoke bombo which the robbers used to distract attention during their crime, said that the implements could very possibly be war surplus material of the type currently being distributed in New England...
...condemning or attempting to justify the moral degeneration of the youths, the picture recalls "Crime and Punishment." Just as Raskolnikofi was by nature generous, warm hearted, and high spirited, so Giuseppe and Pasquale are portrayed as human beings who are gradually twisted by poverty and the demoralized period in which they are caught. Their's is the simple morality of friendship that does not permit "squealing." But even that is swept away when Pasquale--thinking he would save Giuseppe from being whipped--tells that Giuseppe's brother was involved in black-market dealings...