Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended- in September 1929- Harris "retired." But this characteristic Harris gesture fooled nobody; after a trip abroad and a tumble in Wall Street he was once more aswirl with ideas. The next few years brought more kudos than cash-and the kudos more for revivals (Uncle Vanya, The Inspector General, A Doll's House} than for exciting new productions...
Died. John Syme, 73, indefatigable one-man crusade against British officialdom; in London. As a police inspector in 1909, he refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...
Swiftly, the local board of health and a state building inspector condemned the school on 37 counts, sent the injured boy to a hospital, moved the others to homes and the Y.M.C.A. in nearby Pittsfield...
...pudgy little husband who 1) begs a divorce from his unendurable wife, 2) failing to get it, murders her, 3) marries and lives happily with the girl he loves. What is more, the man is presented so sympathetically that when at last, thanks to the guile of a police inspector and his own tortured conscience, he complies with the codes of society and cinema and returns to face the music, the average cinemaddict will feel very sorry indeed...
...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...