Word: gangsterized
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...wordy script is often highly entertaining; yet some of the sharpest stuff is purely visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...
...tickling their ribs-has written a comedy about a roughneck (Hollywood's Anthony Quinn, making his first Broadway bow) who hijacks his way into Congress. To attract attention there, he introduces a bill calling for World Government. Soon he really believes in the bill, and is using gangster tactics to get it passed. That is the end of him as a Congressman, but the beginning...
...Voice. There was no such light about the head of Dr. May's pit-mate. "Not guilty," pled the scar-faced prisoner on trial for his life in London's Central Criminal Court. The little man who, in his self-conscious spruceness looked like a somewhat comic gangster, was Lord Haw Haw - William Joyce - the British Fascist who, during World War II, had nightly tried to sap his countrymen's will to survive by broadcasting defeatist propaganda from Germany...
...late Alexander Woollcott. He let his listeners in on his random thoughts, a bit of philosophy, some gossip. He did a little crusading for higher salaries for teachers. He told a yarn about World's Fair days, when J. Edgar Hoover put the finger on a gangster who was bothering Billy. He bemoaned all the big-time stars that he has been dope enough to pass...
...should recognize with humility that the cinema does a great deal more than the church to keep young people off the streets and out of the saloon bar. Perhaps gangster films have led to some increase in juvenile crime, but the normal child cheers the forces of the law.... It is no part of the church's duty to abolish occasions of temptation to the few if their general effect is salutary. Gangster films bring the element of adventure into the drab routine of a city...