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...capital cases arose from the baffling disappearance of respected Palm Beach Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth and his wife in 1955. When Prosecutor Philip O'Connell finally cracked the case six years later, still with not even a body as evidence, he did so by granting immunity to a thug named Bobby Lincoln, who brazenly testified that he had bludgeoned the Chillingworths and drowned them in the Atlantic. He had been hired by Judge Joseph A. Peel, said Lincoln, because Peel feared that Chillingworth was about to expose the protection he was selling to moonshiners and numbers men. Peel went...
...perils of Manhattan as if through the prejudices of a spinster librarian in Humboldt, Kans. Last week's story was all about a bright-eyed girl from the Midwest (Tuesday Weld) who arrived in New York and within a week was eating kickapoo pills given her by a thug in El Morocco. Ironically enough, the series was created by the man who wrote Born Yesterday, Broadway Playwright-Director Garson Kanin. His hero, played by Craig Stevens, is a press-agent who calls Kilgallen before he calls the police. The show is nervously edited and stuffed with cameo appearances...
...clever-and lucky. He never bothered to arrest small-timers, passed out candy to the kids, found jobs for dozens of ex-cons, personally sent food and clothing to mothers widowed by killers he had not caught up with in time. He could draw his .45 faster than any thug, could shoot so straight that crooks often surrendered when they heard he was after them. Bullets missed him so often that it seemed they would never learn the way. He once climbed unscathed up a hill through a hail of slugs to collar two pistol-happy punks, another time managed...
...That Pedro Armendariz seems better as a Mexican revolutionary (his traditional role) than as Bond's Turkish sidekick is largely due to his limited versatility as an actor. Red Granitski, the homicidal fiend of the novel, has been tamed down to a cold war equivalent of a Murder, Inc., thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected to play Grant fails to capitalize on his good fortune, and so what could have been a near-monumental struggle between two men of Bond's stamp comes off as the usual cool hero versus ranting villain showdown...
...dramatically justified if it were amusing or ironic or revelatory, but Josef D. incessantly lectures and never electrifies. Chayefsky misdirects his own work, injecting group chorales and Brechtian-inspired political satire in which inane bourgeois messily cut their own throats onstage. Peter Falk's Stalin is a menacing thug with a will of granite, but Luther Adler's Lenin is too mellow and self-questioning for the single-minded intellectual doctrinaire who could be just as implacable as Stalin. To recreate the rationale of tyranny should not be to forget that for men like Lenin and Stalin, power...