Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue Gardenia (Warner) cooks up a better-than-average whodunit out of some rather commonplace movie ingredients: a dead artist (Raymond Burr), a beautiful murder suspect (Anne Baxter), and a dynamic newspaper columnist (Richard Conte) who solves the crime...
...manages to take on an unaccustomed bloom in Fritz Lang's direction and the acting of an adept cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...
...Housemaster, say, offered to lower room rents for all who pledged their blood, we suspect that the rumblings would be a good deal more than gastronomic. That is precisely the sort of things the three ROTC units are doing. Not content with the usual pressures a charity drive creates, they have added a few intolerable ones of their...
Strictly enforced, the sweeping terms of the bill could well lead to Gestapo-like investigations of all professed liberals. And when the implication points ultimately to the presidents, as leaders, not only the individual suspect, but the whole institution, suffers...
...less than seven hours of Spillane-like night duty, Manhattan Detective Walter C. Bentley 1) was attacked by an assault suspect, who slugged him with a 5-ft. iron pipe, 2) carefully shot his attacker in the right knee with his service revolver, 3) took his prisoner to the station house and was then treated at St. Luke's Hospital for bruises of both shoulders, 4) reported back to duty, 5) jumped into the Hudson River in near-freezing temperature and rescued a drowning man, 6) retired to a hospital again to have a gash in his leg stitched...