Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England has long been considered the center of learning in the United States, but after viewing the Crimson-Columbia basketball thriller at the Boston Arena Tuesday last, this bureau is convinced that the Midwest has swiped all the teaching honors in that sport's field...
...Past (RKO Radio) is a medium-grade thriller about a not-very-smart young man (Robert Mitchum) who is hired to hound down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in for no end of melodramatic consequences. Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension...
...entrance by Korda, the Hungarian-born producer who first proved to Britain that it could compete with Hollywood, was well planned. He had tested the market a month ago with the first postwar production of his new company, an unpretentious thriller called A Man About the House, launched without benefit of the Korda name. It was grossing as much as first-run U.S. pictures, Korda said...
Things get a little livelier in the second feature which, if not quite a thriller, at least offers automobile chases, loud pistol reports, and stony-faced intrigue. Entitled "Second Chance," it concerns a projected million-dollar jewel theft, in the course of which two of the crafty schemers fall in love. They double-cross their accomplices, enabling the movie to end on a clinch between two law-abiding citizens...
Overshadowed by this game, Winthrop won a thriller of its own on the adjacent field with two first half scores. The Puritans, however, had a withstand two Funster drives in the closing minutes of play, one of which ended...