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...looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey...
...dull eyes as the vacation melts away like the ruins of a double ice-cream sundae too big to finish. Lennie, 12, looks disgustedly at his little brother. Their widowed mother has gone away for two days to take care of a sick relative, leaving Lennie in charge of Joey. Pretty soon Lennie and his pals are lost in an ornately gruesome game of getting rid of little brother...
Being practical types, they decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads...
Doing Coney Island on six bucks, Joey cossacks around the carousel and lances fiercely at the ring with a pudgy forefinger; he jangles vacant-eyed through a miniature scenic railway, slings a sledge as big as himself, whomps the nickel rockets grimly at the wooden milk bottles till they topple at last, and the victor's laurel-a limp paper lei-descends on his brow, and falls around his neck...
...moment of the binge comes when Joey walks into a cage, picks up a bat, starts swinging at baseballs spit out at him by a machine. Totally unconscious of the watching camera. Joey lashes out for dear life in a display of innocent animal vitality that creates one of the funniest, most beautiful passages ever to cross a screen...