Word: gangsterisms
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They called him l'uomo che la morte non vuole-the man whom death does not want. Amerigo Dumini, the St. Louis-born Italian gangster-politician, had sent many men to their death, but somehow always managed to dodge it himself. He lost a hand in World War I, and lived. He stopped a bullet with his head in World War II and lived, recovering miraculously after he had been abandoned as dead in a cave near Bengasi. Yet his most famous dealings with death occurred in the infamous days between the two wars, when he organized the murder...
...Peru's anti-Apra press ever printed anything about Haya, this last injunction would have been news. Apra had often used gangster methods in politics; it had been blamed for the still unsolved murder last January of Rightist Editor Francisco Grana (TIME, Jan. 20). Perhaps now Peru's dominant party was going to restrain itself. At least the Jefe had given the word...
...Chase (Nebenzal-United Artists) never runs quite fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...
Nobody Lives Forever (Warner) prompts the suspicion that Warner Bros.' long cycle of expertly documented gangster films - now running into its 16th profitable year-may never...
Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings, is all that saves the movie from disaster...