Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder Without Crime (by J. Lee Thompson; produced by Del Bondio, Windust & Weatherly) starts off nicely when a young lady is stabbed with a dagger. But it winds up sadly, strangled by its own wordiness...
...English psychological thriller, Murder Without Crime shows the stabber hardly able to hide the body of his victim before his ferret of a landlord pokes his head in the door and his nose into everything...
...After protracted argument and the citation of many an authority, the stubborn editor responsible for this grammatical crime admits it, feels...
...Louis Police Head quarters on July 27, 1942. A chunky, good-natured, shiftless Mexican, Melendes had been arrested three nights earlier in a raffish nightclub (one with women hostesses and rooms upstairs). He had admitted his part in a $40 robbery. His cell mate and partner in the crime, Andrew Brinkley, testified at the perfunctory in quest that Melendes had fallen off his bunk, cracked his head on the concrete floor. The coroner's verdict: death caused by kidney disease and congestion of the brain...
...people were told: "The Allies have no intention whatever of giving peace to our country." The Army was told: "Your duty includes the 'disciplining of the civilian population.' " High Churchmen lent their voices to the Palace's. Said Cardinal Fossati, Archbishop of Turin: "It is a crime ... to interfere with [Marshal Badoglio's] work in any way, even by criticism...