2 hours 4 min • 1955
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Public Hero Number One
G-man Chester Morris gets the goods on underworld czar Joseph Calleia with the help of the mobster’s right-thinking sister, Jean Arthur. An MGM programmer from 1935 with a good reputation; […]
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The Blood of a Poet
Jean Cocteau’s 1930 attempt to transfer the artistic strategies of modern poetry—allusiveness, discontinuity, self-referentiality—to film. Though many of the images are striking (the mouth that lives in the poet’s hand, […]
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Walter’s Directives: Who’s the Boss at Channel 2 News?/RupertWatch: Is the Sun-Times Getting Better?
Walter’s Directives: Who’s the Boss at Channel 2 News? Tom Lindner was hired in June as producer of Channel 2’s 10 o’clock news and told to make changes. After only […]
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Tunnel Vision
A young, pretty Hispanic woman sat on the bench at the far end of the Chicago and State subway stop. Five balloons, each a different color, floated upward from strings […]
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Murdoch’s Man in Chicago
Rupert Murdoch purchased the Chicago Sun-Times last November supposing there’d be someone to edit it when he took the paper over in January. And there wasn’t. Publisher Jim Hoge was […]
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RupertWatch: Writer Gets Affront-Page Bye-Line/Return of SiskelWatch/No Opener/Ink
RupertWatch: Writer Gets Affront-Page Bye-Line At the moment, we are not too concerned about what you may or may not think of the Chicago Sun-Times under its new management. (There […]
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Feiffer’s 55th/The Exploitation of Jimmy T./The Explots of Rupert M.
Feiffer’s 55th So, tell the truth: if it was your 55th birthday and you lived in Manhattan, would you fly to Chicago for a party that will be attended mostly […]
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The Press: Abandoning Ship
Everyone at the Sun-Times has heard the story of Rupert Murdoch’s bags, and everyone, it seems, is eager to tell it. An enormous amount of anger and contempt is invested […]
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Movie Sidebars
FESTIVAL Red Diva: Lyubov Orlova, First Lady of Soviet Cinema In 1999, when the Moscow daily Komsomolskaya Pravda asked readers to name the most beautiful women of the 20th century, […]