Word: gangsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forgetful. He was taken back to Brooklyn, put on trial for the murder of an A.F.L. official named Morris Diamond. Ex-gangster Allie ("Tick Tick") Tannenbaum told the jury all about the crime. But another hood named Angelo Catalano-who had earlier admitted driving Parisi's getaway car-last week took the stand and said blandly, "That ain't the guy." A corroborating witness who had seen the murder just couldn't identify the killer either. Since a man may not be convicted of murder in New York solely on the testimony of accomplices, the judge helplessly...
...Post played up his findings in a six-part series last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...
Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...
After 15 years in prison, Larry Nelson is released into a world of soft lips, hard guys, and easy money. He is an innocent strong boy, and is forced into struggles with six or eight gangsters and a couple of attractive but not very reliable women. In the process, he gets himself called the "most perfect physical specimen," rescues a dying tubercular gangster from a flaming house, knocks out several elegant thugs, and learns that "there's nothing in the world like a dame...
...Outside the Wall" is better than most gangster pictures. Unfortunately it concerns itself with only a million dollar armored ear robbery, and will probably prove unsatisfying to readers of Boston newspapers. But good acting and directing, and a half-hearted attempt to face the problem of what happens to a man when he is released from jail, improve it somewhat over the run-of-the-mail underworld picture...