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...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin keeps on his toes as Georges Simenon's flawless flatfoot, and Director Jean Delannoy's camera is a superb shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin keeps on his toes as Georges Simenon's flawless flatfoot, and Director Jean Dellanoy's camera is a superb shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin fits Georges Simenon's famous flatfoot like an old shoe, and Director Jean Delannoy has not spared the polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: From Hollywood | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...outrage their better instincts or tickle their worse ones. In any case, Shield for Murder is memorable only for the work of Emile Meyer, an actor of such massive port and seemingly minute intelligence that his performance may be recognized as the definitive Hollywood attempt to characterize the eternal flatfoot. His best line: "Nayun years ay pre-sink capting. An' dis is duh firs' time I ben pullt inta duh drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bull Session | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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