Word: gangsterisms
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...Thackeray. Once he paid for a set of Lincoln and Jefferson to give to "a politician." Last April, Plug-uglies Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went on about his business of being New York's most notorious gangster and beer baron. Last week the Wexler career came to an abrupt and inglorious end in a dingy Federal courtroom in Manhattan...
...just deserts. A kindly beer-baron (Spencer Tracy), onetime leader of their gang, whom they have helped send to prison because of his reluctance to be a "snatcher" as well as a 'legger, gets paroled to track them down. Neatly circumventing the Hays organization's antipathy to gangster pictures, The Mad Game would be an even more satis factory revival if it did not revive also such details of the old gangster picture formula as characterization that depends solely on mannerism. Typical shot : a girl reporter (Claire Trevor) arduously rolling her own cigaret...
...little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make any cinemaddict mistake the heroine or any of the other characters in the picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus girl, patterned after the roles Miss Keeler takes in Warner Brothers musicals. A silent gangster (Paul Kelly) with a heart of gold befriends her, falls in love with her, loses her bravely to a suave crooner (Russ Columbo). The plot's conventionality is really an advantage because it is unobtrusive framework for pleasant songs by Columbo, Cummings and Frances Williams, dances by the chorus...
...order to prevent a recurrence of these gangster attempts at terrorism. Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard Police, will be requested to make a personal investigation and bring the culprits to justice. According to one theory, the bombing is the work of Lehigh scouts who are attempting to disable Harvard's coaching staff. Others have expressed the opinion that the managerial staff at Dillon Field House may have information of value, but little credence edence is given this supposition, which is founded on the beliefs of a few hangers...
...pure white skin, he has conniptions. Emasculated as he appears on the surface, he faces death with remarkable nonchalance; he is there in the pinch. Maybe this characterization conveys something mystical and beautiful to you. If it does, be sure not to miss this "dynamic movie in which the gangster is depicted as a man not to be despised, quite a noble creature at heart; and crooners are portrayed as they really are, just overgrown children with hearts of gold and never oblivious to the finer things in life,"--blurb...