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...classic Don Juan legend. Juan has been in Hell for some years; the Commander he slew has been longer in Heaven; and Dona Ana, the Commander's daughter whose seduction led to the slaying, has just died. She is indignant and aghast at having been consigned to the underworld; even the discovery that her father is moving there by choice does not appease her-better, as she sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost no one but the English can endure...
Producer-Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler wisely junks the play's long speeches designed to draw parallels between McLeod's rigid zeal and the evils of the police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy...
...Green had won that job after threatening a proxy fight. In November 1949, he had gone to Minnesota, armed with 19,200 shares of T.C.R.T. and complaints about no dividends. As an ally in his fight, he picked up Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld, alias Kid Cann, a wealthy Minneapolis underworld character with a record of 30 arrests (two for murder) and three liquor convictions...
Shooting Gallery. It was also Ford's fear of robbers and kidnapers, says Bennett, plus his humane desire to rehabilitate crooks, that led the company to employ thousands of former criminals. Bennett insists he did not originate the policy, but he perfected it, made the underworld his ally, so that it would tell him of any plots against Ford or the company. He gave a Ford agency to Chester La Mare, reputed boss of Detroit's underworld, and turned over the plant's fruit concession to him. When a Detroit child was kidnaped, Ford...
Over all of Sandrino's twisted personal behavior hovers a political fantasy: that Fascism will make a comeback in Italy. To hurry X-day along, he signs over Virginia's remaining lire to some underworld sharpies. For a receipt they give him a bit of black cloth, purportedly from Mussolini's death shirt, soon leave him holding...