Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murders in the first fifteen minutes set the pace for "The Mob," a B+ cops-and-robbers about waterfront racketeering. Oscar-winning Broderick Crawford has a grand time slugging, drinking, and wisecracking his way through the picture as a city detective who goes underground to crack a crime syndicate...
...whirling propellers. The scene around the plane's unopened door became a madhouse of shouting ministers and mullahs. One Majlis leader was whacked across the mouth with a large wet floral wreath. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson, out to say hello to Mossadegh, was caught in the mob at the airport, had his pockets picked (his wallet was later returned intact), but never got to speak to the pallidly beaming Premier...
...Lavender Hill Mob shows Alec Guinness at his comical best as a bank robber. At the Exeter...
...individual's rights against the majority in a time of crisis, but in so doing he has been forced to underscore another problem: the inviolability of objective truth. The main thesis of the play is that a scientist may and must stand firm against the animalism and stupidity of mob opinion; when the masses proclaim him an enemy of the people for his adherence to the facts, he realizes that the inherent fallacy of democracy lies in the selfishness of the people...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...