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...coin-operated Laundromat and quiet residential streets. Several double-wide trailers and late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...
Director Wheeler plays Gillettestraight, creating a fine realistic tone aided by Loy Arcenas's detailed sets and country-music interludes...
...their attempts to follow this [the Nugan Hand investigation] up, Australian investigators questioned their star Nugan Hand witness, George Shaw, who recalled dealings within a Sydney outfit called the Loy Arms Corporation. Shaw hadn't been involved in the details. But Loy's proprietor, Kevin Joseph Loy, acknowledged he had been approached by Wilhelmus Hans on behalf of Nugan Hand. In fact, a search of Loy's records produced copies of a weapons import permit from South Africa, dated September 18, 1975, another import permit from Singapore dated November 4, and an Australian export permit dated November 10--all involving...
...Loy Arcenas's simple yet imaginative set design serves as a visually summary of the situation the play. Behind the smaller sets which represent the locations of the individual vignettes looms the flaking, run-down walls of what is clearly a psychiatric ward; the encapsulation of one set within the other parallels the encapsulation of one imaginary existence within another. The entire set is fairly constricted for the large stage of the Loeb Theater, effectively mirroring the inmates' feelings of confinement...
...typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow. Powell aged gracefully onscreen, playing the irascible patriarch in the 1947 film Life With Father (for which he received one of his three Oscar nominations) and the ship's doctor in his final film, Mister...