Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...
...terrible consequences of this mistake are illustrated by Laraine Day, who flings herself into marriage with a comparative stranger. After only a few months, Laraine discovers that Ryan was once a C.P. strong-arm boy. But it is already too late: she is one of the few characters left alive in the movie. The party has not only tied up the San Francisco waterfront, but killed her husband, run a sports convertible over her brother, and pushed her prospective sister-in-law out of a window...
...Robert Ryan's appearance in a film (Crossfire, The Set-Up] has almost come to mean a low-budget picture with a future. He gives this movie some unexpected authenticity because he is capable of crossing black & white traits in a role without showing his hand. The standard rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
...last of the fifth, the Braves put on a concentrated campaign of delay. The Troubadours started it off by playing "Night and Day." Connie Ryan came on deck wearing a raincoat, evidently to imply that it was raining rather heavily on the field. Barlick permitted him to leave the field at a minimum cost...