Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...
Burgess Meredith, who is responsible for the fine direction of the film, plays Heurtin, the accused innocent. As a myopic knife-grinder who is hopelessly implicated in the murder by circumstantial evidence, Meredith deftly characterizes a pathetic little man who complicates Maigret's plans by his desperate search for revenge...