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...murder, rape and robbery had been rampant in Indianapolis and surrounding Marion County. Husbands armed themselves, then armed their wives. People bought watchdogs. Locksmiths did a land-office business and householders chained their doors at night. From exclusive Meridian Hills to Pat Ward's Bottoms, nerves were taut. Indianapolis had escaped race trouble during the war, but all the ingredients for an explosion were there...
...typical tough guy drama, "Ride the Pink Horse" achieves no great moments; but on the other hand, it doesn't aim for any. Tense and taut throughout, everything conceivable is strained; not even the imagination is overlooked...
...manpower, technology and factories, as well as land, forests and minerals. Rich and bountiful as it is, the U.S. cornucopia is not limitless. Though annual exports on the projected scale of the Marshall Plan would amount to only 2% of the national capacity, they would be piled onto a taut, high-employment economy that was already near busting at the seams...
This rather conventional story, shaded with stout "socially conscious" sentiments against commercial ruthlessness, is turned into an unusual movie by Abraham Polansky's taut continuity and sharp dialogue, by Robert Rossen's solid directing, and by Cameraman James Wong Howe's vivid shots of fighting. A good deal of the picture has the cruelly redolent illusion of reality that distinguished many of the movies of low life made in the early...
...opera actor -but that is a far cry from being a movie matinee idol. Gone is the famous 23-foot Marmon with his name in solid gold on the door. He can no longer afford to pass out $100 tips to waiters. His hair is white, and the lean, taut jaw line once beloved by millions of women has run to jowls. "At 64," booms Francis Xavier Bushman, "my energies are somewhat-ah-shall we say, mellowed, but my profile is unimpaired...