Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Warner) sends Hollywood's aging (46) tough guy James Cagney off on another gay whirl of crime. Cast as the same strutting, wisecracking thug he played so often in the '30s (now, in a fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six men, breaks out of a chain gang, pulls off a couple of daring heists, blackmails a bribe-taking cop (Ward Bond) and viciously swats a blonde moll (Barbara Payton) with a rolled-up towel...
...newspaperman Winchell was talking about was his Mirror colleague, Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, 45, whose previous publicized licking was administered by weedy Crooner Frank Sinatra at Hollywood's Ciro's nightclub. This time Welterweight (138 Ibs.) Mortimer was beaten by an unidentified thug at 1:45 a.m. in the washroom of New Jersey's Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer...
Tough All Over. In Indianapolis, a thug aimed a shattering blow at Charles Plake's midriff, connected with the plaster cast Plake was wearing for a back injury, fled empty-and sore-handed...
...exciting location shots from high overhead showing the cars darting through narrow skyscraper canyons. Sidney Boehm's straightaway script, if somewhat patly plotted, contains some authentic-sounding police talk. There are also solid minor per formances by Paul Kelly as a captain of detectives, James Craig as a thug and Jean Hagen as a Greenwich Village night club floozy...