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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with exactly the same disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...night last week Betty Jane Kroeger, 17, killed her mother. She confessed later: "Mother refused to let me go tb St. Louis, so I shot her." Next morning she drove to her father's store in Eminence, Mo., where he had been spending nights because of a series of robberies, and shot him while he slept. Then she drove to St. Louis, and just "shopped around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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