Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crime-U.S. Style. The second Canadian and his U.S. partner were also deserters and were VD cases to boot. They were marched off to a hospital. In the best Hollywood mobster style, pals tried to rescue them. Disguised as MPs, armed with submachine guns, the mob might have succeeded if real MPs had not scared them...
...year-old pandering conviction, and was already under another indictment for trying to evade payment of $85,000 in income taxes. Mr. Bioff wailed: "I never extorted a dime from anybody." Mr. Browne, never in jail himself, has had many another close friend there, including Nick Circella. Capone mobster. If convicted of extortion, Bioff and Browne face a maximum of 30 years in prison, fines of $30,000 each...
What makes High Sierra something more than a Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom...
...afternoon. Others in the bar included George E. Browne, president of the stage hands' union, 12th vice president of A. F. of L. Once charged with being the "front" for the Capone mob, Browne boasted among officials of his union Willie Bioff, convicted panderer, Nick Circella, Chicago mobster...
...bolster Vito Gurino's memory, District Attorney O'Dwyer brought in one of his old pals, Angelo ("Julie") Catalano, State's witness. The two had not met since Gurino tried and failed to take his fellow mobster for a ride last spring because he feared that Catalano would talk. When Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile...