Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Is Dark tells its story leanly. The script is crisply underwritten, the photography has a raw, grimy look, and Andre De Toth's direction is skillfully paced for tension. In its harsh images of a bank holdup, a gangster hideout and homicide headquarters, and in its soundtrack teeming with the discordant sounds and gritty lingo of the underworld, The City Is Dark is a muscular little thriller that carries more conviction than many more high-toned movie melodramas...
...there beside his stuff? The Wentworth piece, sure, probably the best he's done so far. Good sketch of an ill-clothed, ill-fed French family which waits months for a CARE package. When it comes, it's all American magazines. And Wes Johnson's idea about a holdup at the Cambridge Trust curb teller makes a good cartoon. But what else? Robinson keeps drawing those goddam spiderweb cartoons utterly devoid of humor. And Edward's trifle about Kurds and gypsies succeeds only in being esoteric. That's it--except for the Boss's stuff...
...last fortnight, shocked and startled, Clayton learned more about the holdup-and about itself. After nearly two months of silent brooding in the red brick jail at Adrian, young Simpson talked. Floyd McFall, full of dull anger at being ostracized and in fear of going broke, had put him up to the robbery, he said, and had agreed to hide him and help him get away afterward. McFall was jailed. Police said that he confessed, but at Simpson's trial McFall denied any part in the holdup...
...only daughter of the late Robert M. Catts, a New York and Philadelphia financier who made a fast fortune in real estate and lost it in the crash of 1929. As a rich girl, Ethel traveled in Europe; afterward she turned to whisky, husbands and psychiatrists. As a holdup artist she was just an inspired, though eminently successful, amateur-she said she never planned her jobs, pulled them only on impulse and gave the money away. But she seemed to be enjoying her career in retrospect...
...singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery as a result of mistaken identity (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945 et seq.). After Campbell...