Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already facing a five-year stretch for evading payment of $28,532 in federal income taxes, Manhattan's Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, floating loose on $50,000 bail, gingerly peeked at a suspicious Christmas greeting from New York State revenooers. If he expected the worst, he got it: a claim on Costello for a jarring $190,982.24 in unpaid state income taxes. Further robbing Costello of holiday cheer, the federals recently vetoed his plea to let him get out of town, thus cancelled his annual pilgrimage to Hot Springs, Ark., where he might have shaken off his perennial...
...beauty of Cuban women, the virility of Cuban men and the fame of Havana as a city of tradition and culture as well as of rum and rumbas, manned their typewriters again last week. This time the assault was on film: the sequence in Guys and Dolls that shows Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and friends living it up with Havana bawds and bravos in a lowdown nightspot...
...show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted only the occasional intrusion of women, but Brave Eagle (with Keith Larsen...
...DYING FALL, by Henry Wade (241 pp.; Macmillan; $2.75). After the wealthy widow marries the fortune-hunting gambler, does she fall or is she pushed from the second-floor landing to her death? One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with undercurrents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy ending...
...After viewing a rough cut of Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, United Artists decided to release the picture whether it receives Production Code approval or not. The story from the Nelson Algren novel deals with a young Chicago gambler (Frank Sinatra) who becomes a drug addict; thus it conflicts with the code's anti-narcotics clause. U.A. may have been influenced by the fact that Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, which it released without a code seal, made a killing at the box office. ¶The box-office success of Universal...