Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easily surpasses its dyspeptic counterpart. Alan Ladd grimly and effectively stalks his way through a difficult and interesting role, with various and sundry saboteur doing their darndest to stop him. Ladd himself makes the picture what it is, and his sensitive portrayal of a different kind of ruthless killer marks him an actor to be watched. Veronica Lake is here, too. There must be something nice to say about her presence in the film, but all we can think of right now is--well, Veronica Lake is here...
Soon we came safely down on the home field and Tex swept in with his fighters. He walked toward us, his long wiry body moving with a roll that held a kind of threat in it. He looked like nothing so much as a steely-eyed Texas cowboy killer. On his face was a broad grin and in his blue eyes was a hard, bright, but delighted, look...
MURDER IN RETROSPECT-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot prods the memories of surviving participants in a 16-year-old English seaside poisoning affair, pulls out the unsuspected killer and clears the scutcheon of a young girl whose mother was convicted of the crime. An exciting exercise in high-&-low deducing...
...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...
Senate investigating committee), and foiled a plot to sell poison gas to the Japs -altogether a good day's work for Killer Ladd, and a better than middling melodrama...