Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results of this clash of ideologies were one-sided. Though his father alternately thrashed him and treated him with puzzled affection, Eddie went his own way. He smoked, cigarettes by the time he was in the first grade, led a gang of roughnecks who specialized in swiping coal from railroad yards, and got into so many fights that he seemed to be trying to cultivate two permanent black eyes. But when his father died, he got a job as an apprentice glass blower at $3.50 a week, quit school, and tried his best to fill...
Last week the News did more. It sent veterarn Police Reporter Harry McCormick to Denver to blow the whistle on crime there. Once, kidnaped by a member of the notorious Barrow-Parker gang (1935), McCormick got an exclusive interview and persuaded the kidnaper to vouch for its authenticity by pressing his fingerprints on the windshield of McCormick's car before he was let go. McCormick had hoped to keep his visit to Denver under cover. But the Post ran him down within 24 hours, politely offered him a car, a photographer and a look at the files. This week...
Filmed in sharp contrasts of shadow and brightness, Black Hand evokes its period and locale with shabby, tin-ceilinged tenement flats and narrow streets swarming with immigrant life. With considerable effect, it conveys the ruthlessness of the Black Hand gang, the fear of the victims and the helplessness of police in whom no one dares to confide...
...mood proves strong enough to survive the story, though at times it almost flickers away. A young Italian immigrant (Gene Kelly) sets out to avenge his father, who was murdered by the gang for trying to report an extortion threat. Persuaded to organize the browbeaten community into resistance, Kelly is flung by the hoodlums into the first mass meeting, battered, bleeding and almost dead. Then he hits on the more cautious idea of sending a veteran Italian-American detective (J. Carrol Naish) to Italy to dig up criminal records that will enable the U.S. to deport its immigrant thugs...
...might have been, e.g., a courtroom scene in which a crucial witness falters under a small gesture from the spectators' rows. Dancer Kelly proves capable in a straight role and gets the support of a good cast. As the frustrated detective who has spent 20 years fighting the gang, Actor Naish polishes off a gem of a scene as he drunkenly celebrates his first victorious skirmish...