Word: gangsterisms
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...quite so good is the other picture of the week, "Tall, Dark and Handsome." That so-called lover Cesar Romero is the featured personage, in the part of a gangster with a feathery heart. His little country sunflower, Virginia Gilmore, pulls him back to the straight and narrow, but she can't do so with the picture...
...better than I am. He's even taller than I am." In his tribute, Joe was not merely being nice to a clever amateur. Young Leo Brady, already a full-fledged dramatic professional, wrote the play version of Richard Connell's gangster story Brother Orchid, which was sold to Warner Bros., filmed in 1940 with Edward G. Robinson...
...there is a garage two doors away. Orthodox Greeks have taken over the Episcopal church across the street. In a nearby tourist lodging, a Philadelphia gangster murdered a woman with a brutality that diverted readers of Richmond newspapers for days. Rooming houses, chain stores, laundries, bakeries have crept in like the moral decay in a Glasgow novel. During Prohibition a humor-loving cop told Ellen Glasgow that her home was now in the heart of the bootlegging district. She said it was comforting to think that even a bootlegging district had a heart...
Last week Arch Oboler doffed his inevitable sweat shirt in Hollywood, headed for Manhattan to talk over his sustaining series with NBC. Typical plot he has in mind: A man and wife live all by themselves in an apartment, refusing to speak to other occupants. Then a gangster moves into the apartment house and the man and wife discover they can't isolate themselves from others. "See," he says, "that's like American isolationists, and the gangster could be Hitler." The rest of the series is along the same lines...
What makes High Sierra something more than a Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom...