Word: gangsterized
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Julius Caesar (MGM) is the best Shakespeare that Hollywood has yet produced.* For one thing, Julius Caesar is a play that lends itself fairly easily to filming. Melodramatic rather than introspective, it is a sort of gangster picture with an ancient (44 B.C.) Roman setting. Its political-thriller plot-a bloody conspiracy, and the tyranny that is bred by lust for power-has obvious modern parallels...
Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis...
...years as president of the gangster-ridden A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association, beefy, heavy-browed Joseph P. Ryan has been above the law, despite wholesale murder and wholesale theft on the New York piers, and his own grandly feudal way of handling union funds. But the New York Crime Commission's shocking expose of waterfront rackets hit Joe Ryan where it hurt: according to testimony at the hearing, he had dipped into the union till to buy himself Cadillacs, pay golf-club dues, cruise to Guatemala, pay insurance premiums and family funeral expenses. This week Joe Ryan...
...goes through the steps of putting together a crime melodrama. But it has far too little action, is much too flabby and too gabby. The plot: a powerful newspaper publisher (Fay Roope) objects to his daughter (Joan Weldon) associating with Gambling Boss Frank Lovejoy. Things end fairly happily when Gangster Lovejoy, having come to the conclusion that "you can't run a clean sewer," spills all to a crime investigating committee and goes off to prison knowing that Joan will wait...
...British Reporter William] Connor is cordially invited to occupy our spare bedroom for a weekend if he should decide to return. We have a two-year-old gangster who would, I'm sure, leave many impressions that he would not forget nor report...