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Conroy, played by Edmund O'Brien, is not alone in his civic duties. He is joined by William Holden's two-and-a-half fisted newspaperman, Jerry McKibben, a tough type who splits his time between platitudes and flirting with Conroy's girl friend, Alexis Smith...
...less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...
Smith). By the fadeout, the syndicate has killed off both Holden and Tully, but O'Brien and Alexis manage to finish up the job together...
...much experience at it. The Turning Point is a good case in point. Leanly written by Warren Duff, crisply acted by a competent cast and directed with vigor by William Dieterle, it is a smartly tooled thriller. Best scene: a tingling climax, in which a syndicate killer stalks Reporter Holden through a crowded boxing arena, trying to draw a bead on him from catwalks high above the stadium...
...most improbable victory of the day, the Junior Varsity set a faster time than the varsity boat, 7:07 to 7:09, to win over Yale and Princeton. The victory came despite a beautiful crab, which nearly stopped the boat caught by Bill Holden with a mile and a quarter...