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...going black. She heads for the eye clinic of a Hoosier Dr. Kildare (Dennis Morgan). While he is simultaneously stitching together Joan's optical nerves and surrendering his heart, her gun pals are killing cops, slugging each other and fretting about what Joan's up to. Gangster Brian, who seems to regard her with a proprietary eye, decides to go gunning for Surgeon Morgan. He comes to his destined end by crashing through the glass canopy of an operating room after being shot on the wing by the police...
Humanitarian is not the word that leaps to mind at the sight of slick, pomaded Ujitoshi Konomi. One of the sharpest characters in Tokyo's gaudy Ginza district, Konomi has been in his time a gangster and political terrorist in Shanghai, a smuggler, black-marketeer and saloonkeeper in Japan. Konomi is also a man with important political connections. To forestall trouble, he is constantly accompanied by a bodyguard, a onetime lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Army. Still and all, it was as a humanitarian that Konomi filed a request with the Welfare Ministry back in 1949 to build...
...trained as a gangster's accomplice, attaches itself to Farley and Shelley, who are unaware that the animal is being hunted by a quorum of the local rogues' gallery (Francis L. Sullivan, Lon Chancy, Glenn Anders et a/.). Luckily required to speak none of the film's dialogue, the dog charms Shelley into locking Farley out of the boudoir. Whenever Farley tries to get rid of this dog in the manger by answering a newspaper ad inserted by one of the rival crooks, Farley finds the claimant murdered-and the police (William Demarest et a/.) leaping...
Otherwise, Bannerline is notable only for a distinction that has given a lift to scores of its predecessors on the B-picture assembly line: another fine performance by Character Actor J. Carrol Naish. As he has many times before, Actor Naish plays the menace, an Italian-American gangster. This one takes pride in his rise from a slum to become a silent senior partner of politicians; he has his own sense of fair play as well as foul, and there is enough mellowness in his menace to make him a semicomic figure. Naish's creative playing progressively fills...
...also appeared as an Englishman, an ape, an old woman, a Swede, a Negro, an Indian, a Japanese, a Malayan, a Chinese, a Pole. On Broadway, before he went to Hollywood, he once played a rabbi in the evening while rehearsing in the afternoon as a Greek gangster. On neither stage nor screen has Naish ever played an Irishman...