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...Postman Always Rings Twice (M-G-M). When James M. Cain started writing his hard, high-strung little novels twelve years ago, it struck many screen-wise readers that he was putting on paper a kind of movie that Hollywood would never dare put on celluloid. Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder sensationally proved how wrong that was, two years ago, with Double Indemnity, Ranald Mac-Dougall, Catherine Turney and Michael Curtiz followed up last year with Mildred Pierce, less expert yet crudely exciting. But the screen version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first, most ferocious and in some...
...gave up bobsledding six years ago. Then big, high-strung Bill Linney got the itch again and vowed he would become U.S. bobsled champion. An engineer by trade, he went about it with an engineer's eye for detail...
Four years ago, ship-bored sailors on a U.S. transport near Samoa ran across a ravaged English thriller. Its somewhat peremptory title: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. The high-strung, blood-&-guts story furnished so fine a busman's holiday that they dismembered it, passed it around chapter by chapter. To their horror, they found that the last two chapters had gone overboard...
Last week he continued to broadcast the theme to his listening neighbors. He knew that he had started something. Honduran Congress President Plutarco Muñoz had roared that "pines of Honduras really means that a revolutionary ought to be strung up on every pine in Honduras." The pine emblem had struck home...
...rapid series of funny episodes which make up Hargrove's war is strung together with just enough story to keep things moving-and just enough plausibility to keep them from getting out of hand. Hargrove's experiences (which are not actually Writer Marion Hargrove's but the inventions of Scripter Harry Kurnitz) have the flavor of a letter home to an aunt who is a good old sport...