Word: toth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May, four air police walked into the Jones & Laughlin mill in Pittsburgh and asked for Bob Toth, a young (21) steelworker. When they found him at work, the APs handcuffed him, took him to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, where he was ordered aboard a military plane. Five days later, Toth, who had gotten his honorable discharge five months earlier, was in a guardhouse in Taegu, Korea, awaiting trial by court-martial on a charge of murder...
...Washington's National Airport last week, Bob Toth. a wan and bleary-eyed traveler, stepped from a commercial airliner into the arms of his tearful mother and sister. The murder charge still hung over him, and he remained in Air Force custody, but he had won the first round of the toughest tug of war in years between civilian and military authorities...
...City Is Dark tells its story leanly. The script is crisply underwritten, the photography has a raw, grimy look, and Andre De Toth's direction is skillfully paced for tension. In its harsh images of a bank holdup, a gangster hideout and homicide headquarters, and in its soundtrack teeming with the discordant sounds and gritty lingo of the underworld, The City Is Dark is a muscular little thriller that carries more conviction than many more high-toned movie melodramas...
Internal Revenue agents seized the lavish San Fernando Valley ranch belonging to Cinemactress Veronica Lake and her director husband Andre De Toth, gave them 20 days to settle a $62,000 back income-tax bill or see the property sold at auction...