Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie: Tough rap. No time off for good behavior? Why were you sent up for so long...
Beggars is a tale of two racketeers. Back in Prohibition days Frankie Madison (Paul Kelly) had taken the rap and gone up the river for 14 years. His partner (Luther Adler) has grown rich and respectable, with the help of Frankie's dough, operating a swank supper club. Frankie, getting out of stir, thinks the partnership still exists. When he sniffs the truth, he thinks it is still 1930-that the tough guy who took the rap is more than a match for the smoothie who took his dough. But the tough guy hasn't a chance...
...attention when "Psychiatrist" Peck begins to twitch and grimace over a few fork marks on the tablecloth. But Analyst Bergman quickly diagnoses her love object for the amnesia case he is. When he flees to New York she follows, determined to rescue him with psychiatry from a putative murder rap-and the Hitchcock chase...
Said determined hero-maker Lake: "I still think McGee got a bum rap, and I'd handle the story the same way if I had to do it over again...
Koch: "You know and I know that for a time there were two Italys. The son of a German, I sided with the Italy which sided with Germany. Many Italians sided with Germany until the moment came to take the rap. That moment is now and here I stand...