Word: prowler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
...Homey Touch. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., a tavern-owner reported that a prowler broke into his place three times in three weeks, took nothing, simply rearranged the furniture...
Fire Crackers. In Okmulgee, Okla., the Rev. Howard Bush heard a prowler, called the sheriff, lay in wait outside, got cold and hungry, went back into the house. When he came out, he was challenged, could not answer because his mouth was full of crackers, was shot in the stomach by the sheriff...
...picture's end, abetted by a gentle old prowler (charmingly played by Barry Fitzgerald), Ernie is beginning to see daylight at last. War is soon to engulf him. There, and always he knows now, he will "fight with the man who will fight for a human way of life." Human Beings. On the whole, Writer-Director Odets has kept his sociology as subdued as the warring lights and shadows and off -screen sound effects which he uses so fondly in his first picture...
...superficially aloof but essentially hot as blazes, and seem to do even their kissing out of the corners of their mouths. This particular romance is decorated by some sinister yet friendly bits of low-life café atmosphere. Hoagy Carmichael's performance as a cokey-looking ivory-prowler is especially useful for some spidery Caribbean jazz, and for two wryly elegant Carmichael songs. But the most valuable fixture in the show is 20-year-old Lauren Bacall...