Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Tuesday (United Artists) stars Robinson as a Big Caesar. He's in the death house, see? But on execution night, his moll (Jean Parker) has planned a daring jail break. Everything will go well, if only that Negro down the hall stops his constant wailing of the blues. There is also another condemned prisoner, and Eddie will take him along, because this guy knows where to find 200 Gs. Then, too, there are a steady-eyed priest, a good guard, a bad guard, and a good, dumb crime reporter. After the well-engineered escape, Eddie, the boys...
...mediator between these two conflicting forces is a sympathetic but misunderstanding hired hand. Parker Fennelly impersonates to perfection a cracked-voiced Yankee, and in view of the practice he has had as Titus Moody on the Fred Allen Show, there is little wonder. But because he is meant for comic relief, Holm should have given him more humorous lines, especially at the beginning...
Promptly the FBI arrested two car thieves, charging them with murder. The accused: George Junior McCoy, 34, of Grundy, Va. and Robert Carl Parker, 21, of Washington. D.C. Later, the FBI added a third inmate to its list of suspects, another car thief named Lewis Cagle, 17, of Chattanooga...
...last August, among other things, for beating an old man to death in a park-as Lindner puts it, "a devil's rosary of crimes ranging from rape to murder, and all stamped with an unbelievable degree of sadism." Another of his examples: the New Zealand girl. Pauline Parker, 16, who savagely murdered her mother, assisted by a girl friend, Juliet Hulme, 15. Both, says Lindner, quoting from news reports, "exulted over their crime" and "showed no reasonable emotional appreciation of their situation...
...only do the pros play better and more complex football than even the best college teams, they also play rougher. "We play rough and we teach rough," says Lion Coach Buddy Parker. "And when I say rough I don't mean poking a guy in the eye. I mean gang tackling-right close to piling...