Word: junkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junk tycoon, is played by Broderick Crawford; William Holden plays Paul Verrall, a crusading reporter. Both give good, straightforward performances, and get author Kanin's ideas across well. Crawford's Harry Brock is not quite up to what Paul Douglas achieved on the stage, however. Crawford plays the junkman as a surly oaf and a menace--both of which he is, of course. But the part is a comic one as well, and Mr. Crawford hasn't done much to earn laughs. After all, "Born Yesterday" is a comedy...
This week another case avidly taken up by the Communists was back in the news again, when six Negroes went on trial in New Jersey's superior court for the murder of an elderly junkman. A new trial for "the Trenton Six" had been ordered by the state supreme court after a finding that they had been convicted without getting their due rights under...
...real life, the counterfeiter (Edmund Gwenn) confounds and frustrates the Treasury Department for ten years. Dubbed "Old 880" after the number on his bulging Secret Service file, he is a mild little Manhattan junkman, fond of dogs, children and his fellow man. While the T-men break up big counterfeiting rings, he goes blandly on passing his outrageously crude singles. He prints only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed...