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Based on a better-than-average crime novel by Eleazar Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Jampec (pronounced yam-petz), the Budapest imitation of the U.S. zoot suiter, was under severe attack from Hungary's Communist government. The government flayed the jampec as a sinister penetration of U.S. "barbaric culture" into Hungarian social life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Barbaric Culture | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Bourbon whisky. 2. Zoot suits. 3. Coca-Cola. 4. Popcorn. 5. Ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Singh, alias Julie Mama. Like Blackbeard, who braided ribbons into his beard and went into action with smoldering fuses behind his ears, Singh knows the value of a proper appearance. During the war, when he owned a string of nightclubs, he wore a ten-gallon hat, a sharply draped zoot suit, and numerous rings. More recently he has assumed the role of owner of a modest fishing fleet and prefers a fisherman's sweater and khaki trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood & Plunder | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Drapes resented any comparison with zoot-suiters. "Everybody knew what zoot-suiters were-draft dodgers, guys that hung around street corners," explained Roy. "But guys that wear pegs nowadays aren't bums. It's just a mode of dress." "Cut out that mode of dress stuff," yelled another. "It's just sharp dressing." The city of Baltimore saw it differently. Said one official, explaining the ban: "Extreme dress leads to poor behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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