Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trap (Paramount) is something a prudent moviegoer will not want to get caught in. It tells the unlikely story of an underworld overlord (Lee J. Cobb) wanted by the federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start...
...Brooklyn's Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, a hot-tempered scourge of the underworld during the day, slumbered peacefully in his seaside home, a sneak thief lifted His Honor's pants from a bedroom chair, made off with...
There may be a whole underworld that shares the moral assumptions of Genet and his characters (it is clear from biographical and internal evidence that Genet has lived his life in the moral and physical world that Deathwatch portrays), but if so they are inarticulate and he is their voice. Genet can give us a new conception of the capabilities of the human soul. He is utterly different from normal, decent people, and that is his importance...
...away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned out. Angélique and the lame count hit it off famously, but the count dabbled in alchemy and was burned at the stake, leaving Angélique to disappear, nameless and forgotten, into the reeking underworld of 17th century Paris...
...this underworld, shy, sickly, dowdy and dull Princess Anne-later Good Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs-groped for a hand to guide her. She turned to one of her childhood friends, Sarah Jennings, and found that her hand was dexterous, hard and tipped with eagle's claws...