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...Danger" is Dick Powell's latest addition to his "gat, gal and gutter" series. In this one he plays a small time bookie who has been framed for a payroll robbery he didn't commit. After five years he is pardoned on the evidence of an alcoholic ex-Marine who is interested in a share of the payroll money. The film's action centers around Powell's attempts to clear himself...
Graham Greene has indulged this nostalgia and stayed at this level in four thrillers, all of which have been made into profitable and pulse-racing movies. But, unlike other thrillers of the gut & gat school, his "entertainments," as he calls them (in contrast to his serious novels), are not just brisk episodes of irrelevant evil. They are haunted by a problem-the plight of the human soul benighted in the back alleys of evil. For in the thriller, Graham Greene has found a literary form capable of embodying not only the violence that characterizes modern life, but the insidious violence...
...Gorcey, side-of-the-mouth "Dead End Kid" of stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...
...Blue Book, by the way)." A day later it told more about her: she was not just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub in a chenille bedspread...
...Managua, Nicaragua, Dictator and ex-President Anastasio Somoza watched a Nicaragua v. Cuba baseball game start falling to pieces as fighting broke out, restored order singlehanded in a characteristic way. He pulled out his gat and let go a couple of warning blasts...