Word: gangsterdom
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Granted that premise, this production is riveting. As a monocled Mack the Knife, Raul Julia moves like a Fred Astaire of gangsterdom, sometimes prowling for his favorite whore, Jenny (Ellen Greene). C.K. Alexander's Mr. Peachum-the Fagin of London's turn-of-the-century beggars-might have been drawn by George Grosz. The Kurt Weill score, too renowned for praise (Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny), is superbly rendered. This Threepenny Opera honors the Brecht who wrote with a hammer and swung a sickle. T.E, Kalem
This Gun For Hire (Paramount) might have been designed for the carnage trade. A razor-edged melodrama, it possesses some of the most calculated killing to come out of Hollywood since the movies discovered gangsterdom in the early...
...aware of one thing: in the eyes of the world you will be a representative of that master face of German imperialism that, through robbery, ruthlessness and gangsterdom, through superiority of a scientifically developed system of terror, has erected a system of exploitation and suppression. The real masters will be the Krupps and the Görings. You are only needed as the slave driver, as the soldier who carries out police missions in the interest of his masters and who has, if necessary, to die in silence...
...Rotarianism, their devotion to business, their taste in art and entertainment, their patriotism, their family life, et al.-these same provincials saw clearly ten to 15 years ago that Communism and Fascism were cut from the same pattern and that as governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack of discrimination pained our urban "intellectuals," but it was the latter, not the former, who were confounded when Stalin joined hands with . . . Hitler and invaded the Baltic States. Moreover, these same Americans rejected Communism with contempt, saying in effect: "I don't want no bureaucrat...
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