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Roger Touhy, of Illinois Stateville Prison, was not allowed a peek when a movie called Roger Touhy-Gangster was previewed at the prison. Neither were any of the other prisoners admitted to the show. It was to start at 8:30. It was 10 before it did start. By that time the sound equipment had been repaired and the air sweetened. Somebody had cut an electric cable. Somebody had turned on the steam pipes...
Alan Ladd saves the day for China and the United Nations as he applies his poker-faced gangster technique to a Jap column. The plot proper isn't too convincing, with Ladd changing, in the course of a half-hour or so, from a marble hearted business man who runs oil to the Japs, to an equally marble-hearted defender of China...
Manhattan's erstwhile best-known gangster and beerlegger, British-born Owen Victor ("Owney the Killer") Madden, became a U.S. citizen in Hot Springs, Ark. One of the rare big-time racketeers who have retired with a whole skin, Madden moved to Hot Springs soon after he got out of Sing Sing ten years ago, now putters in his flower garden, dabbles in local uplift...
...nineteen twenties gangster-moll-machines gun picture has gone with prohibition. But there is no law against taking the same plot, putting a WAVE, WAAC or other chic uniform on the heroine, wrapping it in an American flag and feeding it to the hordes of wishful Miniver Cheevies who frequent the institution of the movies, Saturday afternoon variety or otherwise...
...director, he has made some of Hollywood's biggest successes: Dawn Patrol (first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...