Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirty-Nine Steps (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS). Mercury Theatre adaptation of the international spy thriller by John Buchan (Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir...
Religious and mystical novelists were once able to frighten sinners by giving terrifying descriptions of Hell. Nowadays, they make the world sound as bad as Hell once did. In Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...
Jane Eyre (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes returns to radio to play title role in Lux Radio Theatre dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's romantic thriller...
Columbia Pictures runs a gamut of its own, from the frankest sort of penny-thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize...
...CAIRO GARTER MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Gunrunning and big-scale murders in Cairo (with the murderer putting a lady's garter on each victim's arm) make this most recent story of Captain North's adventures an intelligent, fast-paced thriller...