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Tight Spot (Columbia) offers Ginger Rogers as a melancholy dame who must ask herself whether it is nobler in the mind to be a jailbird or a dead pigeon. Edward G. Robinson, the Government attorney, drags her out of a nice warm prison to offer a very cold proposition indeed: Will she turn state's evidence against a powerful underworldling in return for a reduction in sentence? While Ginger thinks it over, she trollops around her hotel suite, munching breast of guinea hen and the biceps of a policeman (Brian Keith) at Government expense. When Keith declines to give...
...better guide than hope. Koestler proved faithful to the links of a Jewish family-to those who loved him without Freudian gimmicks-his father, a lovable crank who went broke backing quack inventions; his mother, so invincibly bourgeois that she knew her son could never have been a jailbird...
...proof of this, Guy recalls the time he was away on a trip to California. "When I returned, all the drunks and book ies thought I had been in jail for three months." In a career that has ranged from chicken-farming to vaudeville, being a jailbird is about the only activity that Guy has missed...
...never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear in its condemnation, the New York Times said: "Our children's children will still be paying the price for the evil which he brought into the world...
...while seemingly committing a serious crime. "And that," he conceded, "made it dangerous." Last week, after seven weeks behind bars, Kellerman had a police record and was out on $500 bail awaiting trial on a burglary charge. He also had his story, which Newsday trumpeted on Page One: ASSIGNMENT JAILBIRD...