Word: gangsterized
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...police station only 100 feet away. There Winchell, pale and "sick to my stomach," turned Macri in, claimed the $25,000 reward for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. It was the second time Winchell had surrendered a man wanted for murder: in 1939, he handed over the late gangster, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter...
Love That Brute (20th Century-Fox) tries to duplicate the success of 1941's gangster comedy, Tall, Dark and Handsome. In fact, it gives screen credit to the scripters who wrote the original. The carbon copy seems too flimsy for 1950s moviegoing tastes...
...kind-hearted gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast...
Despite Mortimer's insistence on the revenge motive, Fellow Columnist Winchell, who also knows a gangster or two, pooh-poohed the claim: "Underworlders can't believe 'any of the Mob' did it-on the grounds that beating up newspapermen 'is hard luck...
...boys lay in state in true gangster tradition. Undertaker Pete Lapetina supplied two solid copper 900-lb. caskets that cost $1,500 apiece. The crowd that came to see the mortal remains of Kansas City's murdered Northside boss, Charley Binaggio, and his gun-toting henchman, Charles Gargotta, was bigger than the funeral home's large "chapel" could accommodate. Each body was laid to rest with a Requiem Mass...