Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch at night law school, decides...
Another announcement was like a bolt striking close at hand, sharply outlining the neighborhood right around home. It came from William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis, the two top American-born bosses of the U.S. Communist Party. The bold net of their announcement, stripped of its tortuous Communist lingo, was that their primary allegiance belonged not to their homeland but to the U.S.S.R. If war came, they and all faithful Communists would be on the side of Russia...
...played it cute and coy. The only really cute thing in the movie is Betty Lynn, who fits her role as snugly as she fits her sweater. The rest, including Rudy Vallee as another pince-nezed fuddy-duddy, is synthetic fluff, which ought to do well in the neighborhood houses by the time hot weather comes...
Grinned bespectacled Harvey Brooks, who is still playing "a very quiet piano" in a neighborhood bar on the corner of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue: "Just like finding $100,000 . . . L'il Bird isn't nothin...
...public is getting tired not only of "sordidness and crime" but also of that cinematic staple, sex. Small-town and neighborhood audiences want more wholesome stuff, i.e., nature, children and animals that the family can safely...