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Rogue Cop (M.G.M) is another Hollywood stab at realism in the manner of TV's Dragnet. Robert Taylor is a veteran city detective in the hire of a pair of grafty little Caesars (George Raft and Robert Simon). When Taylor's kid brother (Steve Forrest), an honest rookie cop, identifies a smalltime toughie who can betray Raft and Simon, Sergeant Taylor tries in vain to get the deal squared. Inevitably, the honest brother is bumped off, and the bad brother sees the light. With Janet Leigh's assistance, Taylor hunts down and rubs out the killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Science fiction is legitimate speculative exploration. If that's schizophrenic, Heyerdahl belongs on a couch instead of his Kon Tiki raft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Middle Road | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...mouths, or a procession of squirrels with sacks on their backs marching across the snow. The students have reported seeing prehistoric animals, weird cities, a pair of disembodied hands coming out of the ground. One student saw a set of gigantic false teeth floating down a river on a raft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Brain | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Cochran comes closest of all the new young villains to filling George Raft's hairpiece; and Actress Lupino, as is to be expected from a member of one of the oldest families in the British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bull Session | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Butler and three other top survival experts were assigned to come down the Charley River on a rubber raft, testing equipment and collecting plant material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Students at University Killed During Vacation | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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