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"[lecturing] The Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill" is one that requires qualification in view of our broader knowledge of impulses behind homicide. The various legal categories such as first and second degree murder, the various degrees of homicide, manslaughter, are civilized recognitions of impulses of various degrees of culpability. The man who kills in self defense, for instance, must not be judged by the same standards applied to the man who kills for gain."
"The streets were dark with something more than night."
"There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him and pay him and pay him until you're penniless. Or you can call the police yourself and let your secret be known to the world. Or you can kill him."
"[Sees Alice Reed for the first time, after just seeing her painting in the window] I-I couldn't have drunk that much."
"In the District Attorney's office we see what happens to middle-aged men who try acting like colts."
"We rarely arrest people just for knowing where the body was."
"Dr. Michael Barkstane: We've decided she's our dream girl just from that picture."
"Heidt: I don't want to make trouble for anybody. I can, of course, but I don't want to."
"It was the look in her eyes that made him think of murder."
"The screen's supreme adventure in suspense!"
"Edward G. Robinson - Professor Richard Wanley"
"Joan Bennett - Alice Reed"
"Raymond Massey - Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor"
"Edmund Breon - Dr. Michael Barkstane"
"Dan Duryea - Heidt/Tim, the Doorman"
"Thomas E. Jackson - Inspector Jackson, Homicide Bureau"
"Dorothy Peterson - Mrs. Wanley"
"Arthur Loft - Claude Mazard/Frank Howard/Charlie the Hat check Man"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.