Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time criminal, had taken his last lumps on a shabby barge moored in the Thames. Davidson, a riverman's son and an innocent bystander, happened to be there because his girl Fay lived on the boat. Fay was a big, handsome girl, and when the trial was over, Policeman Lowther courted and married her. Lowther is a decent man, rather long on conscience. He wants to protect his wife, who has never told him what really happened, but he also knows that Davidson has been wronged. The real kick for the reader comes not from the smooth, credible unraveling...
...work up a few lively scenes and-as he has so often done in previous productions-cast some good people in minor roles. As the harassed sheriff, with a pregnant wife into the bargain (Kim Hunter), Cinemactor John Hodiak struggles manfully, but about all he demonstrates is that a policeman's lot is not a happy...
Some of the "every-man-his-own-policeman" studies, though, are not so gentlemanly. One, directed by head varsity wrestling coach John O'Donnell, aims to instruct the uninitiated in the elements of Judo and combat...
...sunny street outside, Policeman Edmund Noonan was directing traffic, half a block from the bank truck. He noticed a black Buick sedan beside it and strolled down the street to call a warning against double parking. As he approached, the car started up, ripped past him, screeched around the corner and was gone. The cop took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since...
Reichert, ill with the flu, left his bed to help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...