Word: gangsterized
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...melodrama of this sort, Gabin's realistic touches provide an ironic contrast to Pepe's fanciful vision of freedom. The depraved gangster, trapped by both police and conscience, is forced to hide in the friendly surroundings of the native quarter. Ultimately his love for freedom and for the jeweled Gaby draws him from the safety of the Casbah to the dangers of the city. But even Pepe's love is evil, for Gaby is the mistress of another man. Gabin plays the part frankly and sadistically, yet he ended on a note of pathos, emotional enough for melodrama, and ironic...
...most dangerous of such conspirators are recruited on an ideological basis. The gangster is a lone wolf who has been domesticated by his boss; a rebel against society and morality, he is likely to break into rebellion against his overlord or to crack up under pressure of police questioning. But the American who becomes a Communist spy is not especially likely to have an unstable personality. Indeed, some of them have been able to produce impressive testimony that they seemed to fit very well into the way of life that they were secretly committed to destroy. Among conspirators of this...
Ever since its depredations were exposed by the New York State Crime Commission last spring, the gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has had to endure one stunning haymaker after another. The A.F.L. ordered it to clean up the New York waterfront-which was something like asking a tattooed man to wash that sailing ship off his chest-and took its charter away when it failed (TIME, Oct. 5). The Federation set up a competing longshoremen's union, sent gangs of tough A.F.L. men along the piers to add vigor to its organizing efforts, and began wooing dock...
...plot concerns two detectives assigned to guard Joan at a seaside hotel during her 24-hour release from the penitentiary in order to give information to the district attorney about her recently murdered gangster lover. Both detectives are on the gangsters' payroll, but one of them (Lloyd Bridges) falls in love with the girl. The other (James Gregory) is determined to kill her. With this suspenseful situation established in the first five minutes, Playwright Kantor then all but ignores it until the final curtain when the relatively good detective disarms the completely bad one in a technically skillful stage...
...rich and suitably waxen light. His nervous, flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that inspired...