Word: turney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samaritan. Near Brooks, Ore., Truck Driver Ray C. Turney stopped to help a motorist in distress, had James R. Faris arrested when he recognized the stalled automobile...
Theodore L. Turney...
...novels twelve years ago, it struck many screen-wise readers that he was putting on paper a kind of movie that Hollywood would never dare put on celluloid. Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder sensationally proved how wrong that was, two years ago, with Double Indemnity, Ranald Mac-Dougall, Catherine Turney and Michael Curtiz followed up last year with Mildred Pierce, less expert yet crudely exciting. But the screen version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first, most ferocious and in some ways best of Cain's novels, suggests that the vein is running...
...Secret Room (by Robert Turney) is the story of Leda Ferroni, a mental victim of Nazi torture, who goes-presumably cured-to live with an American family. Before the family catches on, she has turned the kids against their mother, planned a kidnapping, committed one murder, attempted a second. The play might have been a fascinating character study or a menacing yarn. But Leda is bungled and the story is a bore...
...characters except Miss Ferroni and one of the children. Not that there isn't plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just overpowered and temporarily hidden...