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...Killers (Mark Hellinger-Universal), as Ernest Hemingway wrote it, was a short story and a simple one. It told how a pair of professional assassins talked tough to some people in a lunch wagon. Horrified young Nick Adams (Hemingway as a boy) managed to warn their quarry, the Swede, but the Swede just stayed on his bed, knowing he could not escape. Within a few crisp pages of dialogue, Hemingway created a masterpiece in terror-by-suggestion...
...Producer Mark Hellinger into a full-length movie. There is a bangup opening with a good reproduction of the short story, virtually as Hemingway wrote it. Then an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) noses in on the inexplicable killing. His research takes him to the dead Swede's beneficiary, an Atlantic City chambermaid (Queenie Smith), to a Philadelphia detective (Sam Levene) and, with their help, through more & more plot-laden flashbacks of ringside and gangster life...
...Swede" Cook, manager of the Bunnies, faces the crucial day calmly as he places his trust in the big bats of Dan Phelan, Ben Miller, and Dick Oburchay, who have already led their softball team to the league pennant...
...years ago, now has fine pottery, glassware, furniture, Finnish handicraft. Fats and meat are rare, but the Finnish calory level is higher than most of Europe's; eggs, potatoes and vegetables are off the ration list. A smartly dressed woman in Helsinki is marked as a visiting Swede from the neighboring land of plenty, for clothes are still scarce (one pair of stockings each year for women, one suit and one shirt for each man every 16 months, new shoes only for industrial workers). But on the whole things are definitely better...
...softball circuit, Leverett wound up its schedule assured of first place, with a won and lost record of 5 and 0. Under the astute management of "Swede" Cook, the Bunnies combined heavy hitting and tight infield play with good pitching to wind up an undefeated season...