Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tennis-playing ladies had taken a terrible drubbing from the U.S. Wightman Cup team last summer at Wimbledon. Last week the English girls began getting free instruction from an enemy agent, onetime U.S. Women's Champion Alice Marble. The thing she missed most in their playing: the killer spirit...
...sort of crime is it? Fiendish. How was the body mutilated? Horribly. . . . What are members of the victim's family? Grief-stricken. When they are not baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced or tightlipped, what are the police? Desperate. What is the public at large? Shocked. What does the killer face? The greatest man hunt in Los Angeles history...
Last week the awkward, stubby, soft-spoken fellow whom sportswriters had incongruously named "The Killer" lined up against five others in Boston Garden, his spectacles firmly secured. For the first two laps Dodds lagged behind; then he spurted. As always, he ran by the clock, not by the competition-the way he set the world indoor mile record (4:06.4) three years ago. He was as graceless as ever; his arms still thrashed like windmills. But at the half-mile his time was 2:00 flat (exactly half of the theoretical four-minute mile) and he was way out front...
Lady in the Lake (MGM) is an amusing cops-&-killer chase, based on Raymond Chandler's hard-breathing novel. As both director and star, ex-Commander Robert Montgomery plays Chandler's famed private detective, amoral Phillip Marlowe,* and also polishes off his first major directing job with dash and considerable imagination...
...hired by a glamorous crime-fiction editor (Audrey Totter) to track down the missing wife of her publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen, five homicides...