Word: hanley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie begins with some random shots of the London police force at work and at play. Once the audience is convinced that policemen are human, the camera centers on rookie Andy Mitehell (Jimmy Hanley), who is being shown around by old timer George Dixon (Jack Warner). After about fifteen minutes of this, the gangster part begins with the entrance of two recent graduates of the juvenile delinquent class who are shunned by professional crooks. since London Bobbies don't carry guns, old George soon finds himself face to face with the young gangsters and can do nothing but walk slowly...
Furthermore, the acting is not up to the usual English standards. Jimmy Hanley plays the rookie with a completely blank expression. Dirk Bogarde portrays the mean and always-villainous killer with a similar lack of imagination. Jack warner acts the old Bobby very well; it was too bad he had to be the corpse...
Paid in Full. Hanley, who was lying in a hospital bed recovering from combat fatigue, talked with impressive sincerity. His debt, according to the investigators' subsequent report, dated back to the death of his father in 1933: the elder Hanley had died the owner of $75,000 worth of stock in a bank which had failed in Muscatine, Iowa. Joe was not legally responsible, but he had shouldered his father's $150,000 double-liability obligation, and he had spent years of scraping and pinching in an attempt to make it good...
...August 1949, the report continued, Publisher Frank Gannett and the Bank of Manhattan had kindly lent Hanley the $28,500 which he needed to pay up the debt in full. But when he knuckled down to Dewey, his patron and another anti-Dewey Republican, Congressman W. Kingsland Macy, were not pleased. It was then that Hanley wrote Macy The Letter, a lugubrious note of apology and explanation...
...investigators had gone to Muscatine too, and had discovered that Old Joe's father had never owned any bank stock; instead of debts, in fact, he had left an estate of $20,570.32. There was a C. C. Hagermann living in the town, and he had known Hanley since boyhood. But he told the investigators that he knew nothing about the note or the bank stock, swore that Hanley had never paid him a nickel, and declared himself completely mystified by the initials "C.T.C...