Word: gangland
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...Spokane, Wash., Austrian-born Ski Instructor, and former fire extinguisher salesman, Hans Hauser, husband of gangland's Glamour Girl Virginia Hill, asked U.S. immigration officers for permission to leave his home, take his wife and child south to teach skiing in Chile...
...Bonanza. Time and circumstances, he found, had worked some major changes on the face of U.S. gangland. Big-scale prostitution, the big pre-World War I racket, had been spoiled by the Mann Act. Repeal had put an end to the era of bootleggers, gang war and magnificent funerals. The U.S.'s fast-buck boys had moved in on a bonanza which proved richer than their wildest dreams. The new bonanza: big-time gambling, organized on a big-time scale...
...Well-Charactered Man. In 1951's gangland, many of the faces are survivors of the death-ride days of Prohibition. But IQSI'S gang lord no longer swaggers about escorted by squads of dark-coated goons with bulges under their armpits, nor is he openly followed by a string of expensive tarts. His clothes are no longer flashy; everything's gotta be in good taste. He is a homebody. He lives comfortably but not fabulously in a respectable neighborhood, contributes to charity, hobnobs with cafe society, is a friend to politicians, sends his children to summer camp...
...amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well aware that shooting a bobby simply isn't done, they help the police to hunt down their...
...thug at 1:45 a.m. in the washroom of New Jersey's Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer's occasional stories on underworld affairs. The Hearstpapers' lurid stories described his assailants as "paid mobsters," who had done the job with brass knuckles and a pistol. (Playwright Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley, a wartime MP who was also in the washroom, said...