Word: gangsters
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...Gangster films, the Municipal Council decreed last week, could no longer be shown in Kuala Lumpur, the Malay capital. The Malaya sector of the Communist campaign for Southeast Asia was heating up so rapidly that the Kuala Lumpur city fathers decided that they had best call a halt on Hollywood terror...
...Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with...
London film critics and similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...
...British people." The Bishop of London, as chairman of the Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...
...first installment, Shorty: 1) got the brush-off from the managing editor when he asked for a reporter's job; 2) was suspended from the circulation force for slugging a taxidriver; 3) laid the foundations for romance; 4) fumbled a chance for a beat on a gangster slaying; 5) saw his pal locked up as a material witness. It all sounded plotty enough to befuddle the cast (including Mickey's father, Joe Yule, who plays a kindly oldtimer...