Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoover's spectacular weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said...
This cinemadaptation of Novelist Geoffrey Household's best-selling Rogue Male is a superb thriller. Loaded with excitement, suspense and terror, it is a happy joining of a wonderfully workmanlike script by Dudley Nichols with talented direction by Fritz Lang and first-rate acting by Mr. Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett, John Carradine...
...Hunt is more than just a thriller. Without ranting or tiresome speechmaking, it states the case for Democracy v. Naziism with intelligent restraint. The conflict between Hunter Pidgeon and Pursuer Sanders, the Gestapo chief, puts a man of good will up against a tough guy who thinks that might makes right. Director Lang (M. Fury), thrice-wounded Austrian veteran of World War I and a fugitive from Nazidom, knows that conflict intimately. Because he also knows how to tell a story with a camera, Man Hunt has the kind of polished wallop that Hollywood likes to talk about...
...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...
...turn out a study of a woman outcast and her rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...