Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Robber John Giles (37, 5 ft. 11, 160 lbs., dark complexion, brown hair, tough-looking) and Robber Edgar Cook (31, 5 ft. 4, 154 lbs., light complexion, hazel eyes, talks incessantly) were just dull names on Midwest police circulars. But in the tarnished democracy of crime a man can always emerge from mediocrity by that feat of supermechanics, a successful prison break...
...plot is hackneyed and almost traditional: Poor boy wants to see Mother living more comfortably, sinks into life of crime to achieve his end. There is a certain degree of force in Grant's portrayed of Ernle Mott if you region him a figure symbolic of all the underprivileged, an embattled young man of his century moved by vast influences he can understand only in terms of privation. Unfortunately, it is too much a matter of imagination. "None but the Lonely Heart" gives an overwhelming impression of confusion...
...Signed another bill making it a crime to publish anonymous political statements about any candidate for Federal office...
...suggest that Franco, the Falange, the Army, the Church, the big landowners, or the aristocracy might have had something to do with Spain's plight. He found the villainy of Germany corrupting not only Spain but all Europe: "Posterity will say that the worst German crime is the studied destruction of all moral values of Europe...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...