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Boomerang (1947 film), the Glossary

Boomerang! is a 1947 American crime semidocumentary film noir based on the true story of a vagrant accused of murder.^[1]

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1947 crime films
Films directed by Elia Kazan

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 most exciting movies in American cinema.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

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Black-and-white

Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020.

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Cara Williams

Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat; June 29, 1925 – December 9, 2021) was an American film and television actress.

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Connecticut Post

The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Crime film

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Dana Andrews

Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American film actor who became a major star in what is now known as film noir.

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Darien, Connecticut

Darien is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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David Buttolph

James David Buttolph Jr. (August 3, 1902 – January 1, 1983) was an American film composer who scored over 300 movies in his career.

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Ed Begley

Edward James Begley Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American actor of theatre, radio, film, and television.

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Edwards v. Arizona

Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477 (1981), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that once a defendant invokes his Fifth Amendment right to counsel, police must cease custodial interrogation.

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Elia Kazan

Elias Kazantzoglou (Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου,; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan, was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Fairfield County, Connecticut

Fairfield County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Ford Theatre

Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the original radio version and known, in full, as The Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Fulton Oursler

Charles Fulton Oursler Sr. (January 22, 1893 – May 24, 1952) was an American journalist, playwright, editor and writer.

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Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same title. Boomerang (1947 film) and Gentleman's Agreement are 1947 films, films directed by Elia Kazan and films set in Connecticut.

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Harmon Jones

Harmon Clifford Jones (June 3, 1911 – July 10, 1972) was a Canadian-born film editor and director who worked for many years at the 20th Century-Fox studio in Southern California.

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Harold Israel

Harold Israel (1903–1964) was an itinerant former serviceman wrongly accused of murdering a priest in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1924.

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Homer Stille Cummings

Homer Stille Cummings (April 30, 1870 – September 10, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician who was the United States attorney general from 1933 to 1939.

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Jane Wyatt

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress.

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Karl Malden

Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946 and 1947.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby; December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his television role in the series, The Virginian.

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Louis de Rochemont

Louis Clark de Rochemont (January 13, 1899 – December 23, 1978) was an American film maker known for creating, along with Roy E. Larsen, the monthly theatrically shown newsreels The March of Time.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is a non-profit organization of New York City area film enthusiasts.

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New York Film Critics Circle

The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1935 by Wanda Hale from the New York ''Daily News''.

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Norbert Brodine

Nobert Brodine (December 16, 1896 – February 28, 1970), also credited as Norbert F. Brodin and Norbert Brodin, was an American film cinematographer.

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Philip Coolidge

Philip Coolidge (August 5, 1908 – May 23, 1967) was an American stage, film, and television actor, who performed predominantly in supporting roles during a career that spanned over three decades, from 1930 to the late 1960s.

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Police lineup

A police lineup (in American English) or identity parade (in British English) is a process by which a crime victim or witness's putative identification of a suspect is confirmed to a level that can count as evidence at trial.

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.

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Reed Hadley

Reed Hadley (born Reed Herring, June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American film, television and radio actor.

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Richard Murphy (screenwriter)

Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Right to counsel

In criminal law, the right to counsel means a defendant has a legal right to have the assistance of counsel (i.e., lawyers) and, if the defendant cannot afford a lawyer, requires that the government appoint one or pay the defendant's legal expenses.

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Robert Keith (actor)

Rolland Keith Richey (February 10, 1898December 22, 1966), known professionally as Robert Keith, was an American stage and film actor who appeared in several dozen films, mostly in the 1950s as a character actor.

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Sam Levene

Sam Levene (born Scholem Lewin; August 28, 1905 – December 28, 1980) was an American Broadway, films, radio, and television actor and director.

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Sleep deprivation

Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health.

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South End of Stamford

The South End of Stamford, Connecticut is a neighborhood located at the southern end of the city, just south of the Downtown neighborhood.

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Stamford Advocate

The Advocate is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Stamford, Connecticut.

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Stamford Town Center

Stamford Town Center is an urban shopping mall located in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut.

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Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, outside of New York City.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes (May 16, 1878 – September 30, 1959) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 Broadway plays in his five-decade career.

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The Advocate (magazine)

The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Screen Guild Theater

The Screen Guild Theater is a radio anthology series broadcast from 1939 until 1952 during the Golden Age of Radio.

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Tyrone Power

Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor.

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United States Attorney General

The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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White Plains, New York

White Plains is a city and the county seat of Westchester County, New York, United States.

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William Challee

William John Challee (April 6, 1904 – March 11, 1989) was an American actor.

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1947 Cannes Film Festival

The 2nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 25 September 1947.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_(1947_film)

Also known as Boomerang! (1947 film).

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See also

1947 crime films

Films directed by Elia Kazan

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