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Detective Robinson's day begins with the bad news that a patrolman has been shot the night before while trying to stop a car heist. Then a stool pigeon tells him that a well-known hood is back in town to pull a bank job. Piece by piece, evidence comes in to connect the hood with the heist. By 9 a.m. the bank in question is staked out with plain clothesmen. At 1 p.m. the visiting hood and his gang strike, as expected. After a savage gun battle, two thugs get away-without the loot...
...early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with him when an escaped San Quentin prisoner (Ted De Corsia) tries to force him to join in a bank heist. This time the cop is a hard-eyed, tough-fisted police sergeant (Sterling Hayden...
...getaways were wonderful-Grandma just seemed to vanish like smoke. But last week, when she tried to heist a bank in suburban Arcadia, her luck failed...
...hard-running set of midfielders give the Elis two-way coverage. Jack Yellot, Whitey Heist, and Ted Torrance are good defensively as well as on the attack. Torrance, especially, is a key man because of his scoring potential. The second midfield of Jim Hansen, Bill Duncan, and Howie Jones is almost on a par with the first...
...only other heist in Harvard's history occurred some 20 years ago when a person or persons unknown pilfered a little strong box from Dean Brigg's desk, took it to a nearby men's room and pried it open. There was only five or so dollars in it, so clearly this cannot be the exploit recounted by the King of the Safecrackers