Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clever crook, possibly an undergraduate, has fraudulently obtained over $150 worth of books and equipment from the Counsellor for Veterans over the past two terms...
Warned to be on the lookout for a "Herbert R. Gross," one Square bookstore gave a description of the crook last Friday when he presented an authorization using the false name. "Gross," who is presumed to be a student, apparently sensed a trap and left the store before he could be apprehended...
WILLIAM G. CROOK...
...young woman just out of prison (Viviane Romance) who makes such an impression on the depressed M. Heer that he gives up his macabre photographic exploits to fall in love again. The unfortunate thing is that the girl has come home to live with the small-time crook for whom she took a jail sentence...
...gradual and carefully shaded realignment of audience sympathies is the main moving force of the film. Opening impressions of the hero leave you with a generally uneasy feeling about him, while you might think that the crook and his girl are well along on the way to honesty. Consistently high-level supporting actors, superb camera work, and a good script are instrumental in the slow change. Where the film shows its honesty is in the final acceptance by the girl of the necessary double-crossing of her middle-aged admirer to throw police off the trail of her criminal lover...