Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tennis season was at its peak, and there was plenty of work for the champ to do. There was also some relaxing to do, and Big Jake finally found time to read the last pages of a thriller-diller western called Magic of a Killer's Name. Dexer the Cowboy and his sawed-off sidekick. Long Tom, were blowing some varmints to kingdom come...
...Long Night (RKO Radio] is a powerfully unified, extravagantly energetic melodrama about a bewildered killer (Henry Fonda) and the cause and consequence of his deed. The killer is trapped in his little room, high in a poor man's hotel. He refuses to surrender. All night, while law & order works its way toward him and the curious public mills in the street below, he recalls in flashbacks the events leading up to the crime...
...kicks in the solar plexus. Especially memorable: its accurately ugly talk, characterization and atmosphere, strung up to high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame is one of the very few well-baked tarts in any recent...
...Jean Fourcade of Strasbourg, a specialist, demonstrated a new method of ascertaining the respective positions of killed and killer in murders where a pistol is fired through a windowpane. Dr. Muller of Lille spoke on "Encouraging Toxicomania with the View of Inheriting Money." He cited the case of a British peer whose addiction to morphine had been fatally nurtured by his greedy relatives. The most striking report was made by four Yugoslav doctors on war crimes...
...Better watch that temper of yours, son," old Mom Murphy had said. The killer, shaken with remorse, sank to his knees on the kitchen floor. "Darling," he sobbed, "I loved you. I always loved you." He gathered the "limp little body" in his arms, caressed it, "covered it with kisses." It was too late for kisses. Napoleon, the Murphy family parrot, was dead...