Word: mayhemic
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Murder and mayhem sell papers to anyone, it was thought, but blacks in particular fall for the lure of violence. And as Chicago's four dailies began to battle in earnest over the city's burgeoning black population in the early 1960s, the gore they featured increased...
...least one piece of evidence suggests that the American newspaper-reading public is looking for more than it is getting. The conventional wisdom in the business with regard to black people has always been that they only read newspapers full of stories about violence, murder and mayhem. Feed the blacks axe-murders and gang-rapes, the story went, and you will start to sell them papers. This particularly racist view fills most newspapers with gory photographs and disgusting horror stories worthy of the National Inquirer. A multiple murder, for example, produces a week of news stories, interviews with practically...
WEDNESDAY: The Enforcer. (1951) Whatever else this Humphrey Bogart crime melodrama may be, it is more violent than the Battle of Culloden and rivals nuclear war. At least ten people die on-screen in bloody detail and another 20 or 30 are implicated in the general mayhem. Bogie comes through clean of course as the upstanding D.A. fighting organized crime. Where are the Special Prosecutors of yesteryear" CH.38...
SATURDAY: Black Friday (1940) and The Clack Cat. (1941) Classic Horror's two features explore brain transplants with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and comic mayhem with Basil Rathbone and Broderick Crawford. CH.5...
...scenes from Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep. He may know quality but he cannot duplicate it, and never makes up his mind whether to do straight hard-boiled melodrama or imitation Damon Runyon. No such doubts apparently plagued the director. He establishes a consistent tone of massive mayhem. Kulik attempts to disguise every lapse in logic with a lapse in taste...