Word: gangsterized
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...arrested five alleged assassins, headed by Amerigo Dumini, a boastful, U.S.-born gangster and Fascist. He forced other suspects into hiding. Among them: Filippelli, editor of Rome's only Fascist newspaper, Cornere Italiano...
Something in a Newspaper. "Dumini entered my office with something rolled up in a newspaper [believed to have been Matteotti's bloody clothing] and asked me to find him a place where he could keep the automobile during the night." Filippelli became suspicious. It dawned on him that Gangster Dumini had used his car to commit a political murder. Filippelli was shocked and panicky. He did not yet know who the victim...
...Army, and like many others had heard tales of dubious behavior by the American troops in this country. The few we had seen in a neighboring town seemed noisy, and either chewed Spearmint or oversize cigars, and rather resembled the film version of a "tough guy" in gangster films...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...
...great gangster films were as immediate to their day as that day's newspapers. For all its harshness, this one, like the events it tells of, seems to happen years after its proper time...