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...follows, fairly closely, the story of the original "Terrible" Touhy's last days at large. There are exciting bits in the film, and sharp ones, the cynically mumbled administration of an oath in court; the horrible kicking around of a lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against its massive prison buildings...
Then, suddenly, it became evident that G-men were patrolling the plant. Posters appeared on bulletin boards forbidding the firing of any employes without Government sanction. A sub-executive tore one of them off, was instantly handcuffed, hustled off to jail and charged with stealing Government property. His explanation: he just wanted to show it to his boss...
Died. John Wilson Dillinger, 79, father of the 1930s' ill-famed John Dillinger; in Indianapolis. To pay his gangster son's funeral expenses, the sad-faced Mooresville, Ind. farmer went on a criminological lecture tour a few days after the son was shot dead by G-men in Chicago...
...G-men called the case "... a bizarre plot. ... It will sound like storybook reading, it is so fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling...
Most of the dialogue of once Pulitzer Prize winning Kaufman-Hart comedy now is a terrific anachronism. Written in the scant, mid-depression 40's, its unemployment problems, Communists bomb throwing scares, and the G-Men reach a totally unreceptive audience which is keyed to a wartime philosophy far from the laissez-faire attitude of Grandpa Vanderhof...