Word: unsmart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most Hollywood melodramas of the seamy side, Drive a Crooked Road is competently made, i.e., it efficiently machine-stitches the moviegoer's emotions. Rooney plays his fall guy straight down the middle as a decent, unsmart joe who has the usual worries of a man shorter than most of the girls, with the result that he catches the audience's sympathy and holds it even to an improbable end. It is a modest but genuine triumph of self-restrained playing, and suggests that Mickey might well develop from a fine instinctive performer into a keenly conscious...
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