Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detective Story. Broadway Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective-squad room becomes an even better movie as filmed by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker (TIME...
...statement differed little in tone from any other recent U.S.-Soviet exchange. But Vishinsky's reaction illuminated a changed atmosphere in U.S.-Soviet relations. Was that a threat? demanded Vishinsky. No, said Kirk, only a fact. A confident U.S. spokesman offering reassurances to a nervous Russian was something new to the postwar scene...
...Confidence. Vishinsky's formal reply to Kirk contained the usual Soviet opium, but ended with a hope of better U.S.-Russian relations. Washington did not take this Soviet olive branch at face value, but it recognized that the Kremlin probably does want a slackening of international tension...
...suffers most is Detective McLeod (Kirk Douglas), a stickler for justice untempered by mercy, who bears down on a confused first offender as sadistically as he hounds a criminal abortionist. His life is dedicated in about equal parts to the remorseless pursuit of wrongdoers and to the love of his young wife (Eleanor Parker). Then he learns that she was one of the abortionist's patients before he married...
...rest of Detective Story's large cast, featuring William Bendix in a straight role as McLeod's older detective-partner, rounds out a lively gallery of Manhattan squadroom characters. For the first time since Champion, Kirk Douglas gets his teeth into a part tough enough to absorb all his biting intensity. Even more impressive, because it is less expected, is the remarkably well-shaded performance that Director Wyler draws out of Actress Parker in the difficult role of the detective's wife...