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Word: rooten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delinquency. Most of the backgrounds, shot in Brooklyn's swarming slums, give the doings of the tinhorn hoodlums a convincing look of reality. Best atmospheric touches: Peter's grubby home; the grey, frayed hopelessness of his hard-working parents (admirably played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 7, 1944 | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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