Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twisted Trail. Within hours, the city, long inured to the rumbles of the Sinners, the Assassins, and other juvenile gangs, was raging with anger over the latest outbreak of wanton murder; since January, New York teen-age gang warfare had accounted for eight senseless killings and scores of beatings and knifings." Flanked by reporters, the police fanned out to follow the twisted trail left by "Cape Man," "Umbrella Man" and their pals...
...speeches, and not a word more was heard about any reforms. And last week came reports that, true to his promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June. Clearly, the Imam's particular brand of peace was about to return to Arabia Felix...
...conditioners and the soft drinks-or maybe Hollywood was making better films; but movie business was never better than it was during August's humid midsummer heat. August's top ten moneymakers as reported by Variety: 1) North by Northwest (M-G-M), 2) Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia), 3) Hole in the Head (United Artists), 4) Porgy and Bess (Columbia), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) The Nun's Story (Warner), 7) The Big Circus (Allied Artists), 8) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Buena Vista), 9) Five Pennies (Paramount), 10) Last Train from...
Another entry?possibly Hollywood's Anatomy of a Murder or France's Double Tour?might win the festival's Golden Lion of St. Mark. But whatever prize // Generate won in the final voting, it had already earned the heartfelt gratitude of the festival's organizers by transforming a show that was turning into what some critics called "the 20th yawn ? festival.'' Before Rossellini turned up, there was even talk that the festival might die out altogether in the next few years...
Anatomy of a Murder. Lee Remick and James Stewart are slickly professional in this adaptation of 1958's most physiological bestseller, yet even they cannot compete with a cinema (but not TV) newcomer from Boston named Joseph N. Welch-a lawyer by training...