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...year Hollywood career, Carrol Patrick Sarsfield Joseph Naish, 51, has never once been starred. But he has worked steadily, profitably and to the consistent pleasure of moviegoers in so many films that he has lost count. His conservative guess...
Otherwise, Bannerline is notable only for a distinction that has given a lift to scores of its predecessors on the B-picture assembly line: another fine performance by Character Actor J. Carrol Naish. As he has many times before, Actor Naish plays the menace, an Italian-American gangster. This one takes pride in his rise from a slum to become a silent senior partner of politicians; he has his own sense of fair play as well as foul, and there is enough mellowness in his menace to make him a semicomic figure. Naish's creative playing progressively fills...
Kelly, who usually plays dancing roles in techni-color musicals, does surprisingly well as the protagonist who vows to avenge his father's murder. J. Carroll Naish, who plays the police inspector who never forgets a face, is not particularly memorable himself. In a moving speech in criminal court, however, he presents the moral of the movie: immigrants must be made to understand that in a democracy the police protect and help the people rather than oppress them...
...tracks in Milwaukee. So look what I am now and what I've got. Nobody ever told me I couldn't do it. Nobody ever oppressed me. And look at the story itself-an Italian immigrant, created by a Jew and played by an Irisher [J. Carrol Naish]. It's wonderful-amazing...
...been, e.g., a courtroom scene in which a crucial witness falters under a small gesture from the spectators' rows. Dancer Kelly proves capable in a straight role and gets the support of a good cast. As the frustrated detective who has spent 20 years fighting the gang, Actor Naish polishes off a gem of a scene as he drunkenly celebrates his first victorious skirmish...