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Public Enemy [1931]. Cagney plays a punk who grows up to be a crook. The film that made him famous. Ch. 56, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
...nucleus for ACLU activity in southern civil rights cases during the sixties. From that springboard, Morgan headed the defense in Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which established a precedent for federal intervention in state reapportionment schemes--specifically on the principle of one man, one vote. He also argued White v. Crook (1966), which ended the exclusion of women and blacks from juries. The latter case was the first in the current series of constitutional arguments for women's rights...
...director's only feeling is for carnage (a man's head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used to lubricate the gore machine. The Laughing Policeman is most barbarous of all: it primes viewers for two hours of pointless mayhem in the very first scene, when a nameless killer mows down eight strangers on a bus. (If the action slows at other points, Rosenberg tosses...
...affair would never happen were she otherwise. For Simon with his connoisseur's bachelor pride and his crook's cool, is sexually antique. He goes after her like a bullfighter (or the bull) with every gimmick going in the old sexual catch business. He feeds her the lines he figures she wants to hear: "I wouldn't insult a woman by proposing," and the sticker, "A woman is a man who cries." (What instincts.) Which is what--the brute man that he is through and through--she finally succumbs to. He gets his first handle on her heart when...
Lelouch takes care to place his tale in the late sixties, though there is nothing insistently late sixties in the movie. It's more one of those timeless love stories than anything else: a middle aged professional crook holing up in Cannes to rob a fancy (Van Cleef's) jewelry store, is smitten by the antique dealer who runs the shop adjacent. He pursues her by as labyrinthine a design as the one he lays for the robbery. He's no wizard at mind-reading, however, and both plans backfire. The police nab him (for some mysterious reason he dawdles...