Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentence (maximum penalty: seven years on each charge), the full story of his part in Montreal's drug traffic could be told. The Mounties had known about it since last spring when a special narcotics squad, posing as dope addicts and peddlers, filtered into the city's underworld. Their hunt for higher-ups led them to Ste.-Madeleine's parish in the suburb of Outremont and to the 40-year-old curate...
...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...
...Dwarf got dressed, thrust two Lugers into shoulder holsters under his long blue gown, then stopped in a back-alley opium den to share a pipe with an underworld crony, Nai Sakon. The Dwarf complained: "Pramote has doublecrossed us all. Now he has a racing stable, a new Packard and a beautiful wife. We have nothing but worry...
...ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine music and archery. Macready, even with his handsome quiver of arrows, is no match for Raft...
...told his managing editor that he had some inside tips on Miami racketeering, he got the go-ahead. The Petit crusade was well-timed: a new grand jury was starting to investigate gambling and alleged police protection. For three weeks, Newsman Petit vanished from the city room into the underworld...