Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stranger (by Leslie Reade; produced by Shepard Traube) is Producer Traube's first Broadway show since he vaulted to prominence with Angel Street. Like Angel Street, it is a thriller laid in Victorian London. Unlike Angel Street, it is sadly lacking in thrills...
...Prosaic Thriller. The prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...
...most spirited contest of the week, however, was the Adams-Lowell thriller on Wednesday, which Adams won, 22 to 21, gaining revenge for a previous debacle. As the final horn was sounded, Lowell held a 20 to 19 advantage, but Baskell and Donahoe committed a multiple foul on high-scorer Monty Singer of the Gold Coasters. The unique affair ended as Singer colly sank two fouls...
...Ministry of Fear (Paramount), as Graham Greene wrote it, was a thriller so lambent with smolderings of conscience and with religio-psychological sidelights that one critic compared it with Dostoevski. In the film version these murky glimmerings are gone, and the thriller's glow is thus considerably dimmed. But it is a tensely directed (by Fritz Lang) and finely photographed show...
...overtime contest Saturday night at Tufts, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson quintet came within 12 seconds of its first victory of the season, but when the final tally was counted, Harvard was on the short end of the score, 50 to 47. The B team won its thriller 56 to 52 in three overtime periods...