Word: gangsterisms
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...social protest, the film tries for realism as it pans in on Spanish Harlem and enters slums where children sleep on pallets and adults line up nine-deep to use the bathroom. But what the cameras actually record is little more than a Puerto Ricochet from the smallest-bore gangster plot in the film maker's gun cabinet...
...under the constantly watchful eye of bodyguards. When he leaves his office on Paris' Rue Oudinot, his movements are signaled ahead by a succession of handclaps; at the ministry entrance and on surrounding street corners, men armed with submachine guns spring to the alert. "Just like a Chicago gangster, eh?" he grinned to a visitor last week, pointing to his armored Citroen with its bulletproof windows. "You won't mind if someone takes a potshot...
...blousemaking industry. The Justice Department charged that the I.L.G.W.U. local took part, along with three trade associations, in a conspiracy to fix prices of ladies' blouses, a $300 million industry, and to allocate business among blousemakers. Also charged with criminal conspiracy was Harry Strasser, a partner with slain Gangster Albert Anastasia in a dress company. According to Justice, Strasser twice played a prominent role in lining up blouse subcontractors to join with the union and the jobbers in eliminating cut-wage competition and in jacking up prices...
Some Like It Hot (Mirisch; United Artists), Marilyn Monroe's first picture in nearly two years, is a double-barreled period piece: it not only parodies the freewheeling, gangster-ridden '20s, but it recalls the pie-throwing farce of cinema's infant days...
...held by the syndicate) for a trip to London for medical help, the doctor and Anna are held as hostages. Not since Faulkner's Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace...