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...movie is based on a sardonic New Yorker article by John McNulty, but Scripters Phoebe and Henry Ephron seem to have leaned more heavily on the comic strip Blondie for their family sequences, and on Damon Runyan for an episode with a Chicago gangster. Director Walter Lang helps out the dialogue with pratfalls and horseplay, but what keeps Jackpot moving briskly to its happy ending is the ingratiating acting of Jimmy Stewart...
...years as chief investigator for the state's attorney, Tubbo had never jugged an important gangster. Chicago's Crime Commission had asked two state's attorneys not to reappoint him, but Tubbo had hung on to the job. He boasted a personal fortune, not very satisfactorily accounted for, of $300,000. After ex-Policeman William Drury and Lawyer Marvin Bas were murdered a month ago (TIME, Oct. 9), it developed that they were about to unload some dirt on Tubbo before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime...
Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO Radio) tells an occasionally moving love story of two cripples, one moral, the other physical. Gambler Joseph Gotten arrives in small town Ashton, Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen...
Last week the Communist Party organ Szabad Nep called on the government to crack down on jampec-dressed youngsters. Cried Szabad Nep: "They portray the dismal picture of imitating the American gangster's misanthropic spirit, moral decay and spiritual degeneration . . . Can we treat with indifference the fact that our youth are taught to dance sambas to the tune of the Hungarian czardas...
Moscow's Literary Gazette labeled John Dos Passos a "literary gangster" and Henry Wallace "a political businessman." Both were "enemies of humanity...