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Word: fishier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harder he works the fishier the old case gets. He comes to believe in the prisoner's innocence. Before he knows it, he has much of Chicago's population with him and the whole of Chicago's police force against him. He has to steal evidence from the hostile cops, track down a reluctant witness through some wonderfully sinister slums, and finally win his argument in a well-contrived photofinish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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