Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THOMAS W. HOLLAND Edmond, Okla...
This sinister little classic has now been blown up by Producer Mark Hellinger into a full-length movie. There is a bangup opening with a good reproduction of the short story, virtually as Hemingway wrote it. Then an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) noses in on the inexplicable killing. His research takes him to the dead Swede's beneficiary, an Atlantic City chambermaid (Queenie Smith), to a Philadelphia detective (Sam Levene) and, with their help, through more & more plot-laden flashbacks of ringside and gangster life...
...Edmond E. Lincoln...
...face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed. He and City Editor Edmond Bartnett, after 25 years, still address each other as "Mr." Sun employes, who own part of the paper's stock, have their own little union instead of a Newspaper Guild unit...
...imperious girl ("Do all these people belong to me?"), she was also slim, proud, and pretty. The French dramatist Edmond Rostand called her "The little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips...