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...office of governor of Michigan," he said, "is now the crummiest job in the U.S." A man, he grumped, should be elected for four years instead of two. That way he would have time to develop a program instead of thinking about re-election a couple of months after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Crummy & Cloistered | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...empire-building Major is a disarming and refreshing story-far more successful than the double exposure which runs alongside it. This somewhat confusing countermelody concerns Grandmother Susie, the lone ruler of her late husband's empire; Grandson Amory, a Wall Streeter who has embezzled $31 million; and the crummiest set of moneygrubbing relatives since The Little Foxes. In a practical demonstration of her old Major's rugged sense of justice, Susie pays back the $31 million, leaving herself broke and sending the heirs apparent scuttling uselessly for their lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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