Word: gangsterized
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...reporter who modestly puts down his long list of beats to "good luck." Once, while working in Chicago for the Associated Press, he made a routine long-distance checking call to Crown Point, Ind., got the county prosecutor on the wire just in time to get a big exclusive: Gangster John Dillinger had crashed out of the Crown Point jail. Last week another and bigger beat landed Reporter Brennan in trouble. In Washington, a grand jury indicted him for impersonating a government employee. (Maximum penalty: three years in prison and a $1,000 fine...
...uprising of the conquered Zulus, a 26-year-old Zulu warrior named Mdhlani Ngcobo remained loyal to the whites and was rewarded by being made head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
Cinemactress Joan Crawford burbled happily to Chicago reporters about her first independently produced picture, Sudden Fear: "It's wonderful to be casting myself. For 20 years I have been a gangster's moll. At last I am wellborn. I'm a novelist, yes, a successful novelist. You don't think I'd play an unsuccessful novelist in my first picture...
...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...often happens in whodunits, the plot gets derailed at its destination. But on the way the picture rattles along at an exciting express clip. The movie plays fresh variations on a familiar theme in a lean scenario, pungent performances and inventive direction: a gangster car pacing the train is menacingly mirrored in compartment windows as backdrop to the slam-bang action; the cramped train settings are put to striking dramatic effect through expert camera work and cutting. Refreshingly, there are convincing sound effects and no hammering musical score...