Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy's fans saw him on one of his better days. Senator Case, looking and speaking like Mr. Peepers about to propose marriage to Nancy Remington, offered Joe a way out. A raft of apologies for past actions, suggested Case, might result in McCarthy's not being censured. Joe ignored the offer, but he did speak politely to Case (who, thus encouraged, later said he would support a "constructive" substitute to the censure motion...
...movies were poor, the profits were good, since films offered Japanese an escape from their nation's ruins. New theaters were built and old ones renovated, and Japan now has nearly 4,000 moviehouses v. 1,100 in 1946. The occupation also brought a raft of U.S., French and Italian movies, gave Japanese producers their first look at new and modern techniques...
...police (George Raft) discover that the girl did not commit suicide-she was murdered. Furthermore, she was pregnant. Things look bad for the producer. However, there is still the couple upstairs to be considered (Ginger Rogers and Reginald Gardiner) and the boy friend down in the Village (Skip Homeier). Producer Johnson manages very cleverly to keep all these oranges in the air until the next-to-last scene...
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...
Only the supporting actors lift Rogue Cop out of its mediocrity. Olive Carey, as a scruffy old crone of a stool pigeon, is convincingly reluctant to sing for free. George Raft is the same old master of reptilian menace. The lesser cops and crooks look real enough, but Janet Leigh is too sweet and winsome as a reformed tart; Detective Robert Taylor strolls from pillow to punch, always immaculately and incredibly well-groomed, even for an overpaid...