BLACK TUESDAY
(Leonard Goldstein-United Artists) R: 16 years and over. HE story of a jail-break by a bigtime killer (Edward G. Robinson), a bank robber (Peter Graves)-both awaiting electrocution-and several others, Black Tuesday is a well-made piecestark, fast and suspenseful. The early scenes leading up to the escape are especially good: the prisoners wait behind their bars, the executioner tests the electric chair, the witnesses file into the execution chamber; and there’s a very dramatic sequence later when the bank robber, who has been wounded in the escape, goes to a safe deposit box in the heart of the city to pick up the haul from his big job. Eventually the escapees, the killer’s girl friend (Jean Parker) and a number of hostages (a warder’s kidnapped daughter, a doctor, a priest, a reporter, a warder) are surrounded in a warehouse, and there’s a bloody battle which left me a little depressed. Mr. Robinson is impressive in a familiar part in this film, which Hugo Fregonese directed from a script by Sydney Boehm,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 26
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172BLACK TUESDAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 26
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