Screenland (Feb-Oct 1949)

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"I kill four people with my bare hands," brags James Craig, roughing up Farley Granger in "Side Street." In "Side Street," James Craig dabbles in blood for the first time as a homicidal thug. "Just call me Craig, the Killer/' laughs Jim, who's happy to discard virtue for villainy By Gladys Hall JAMES CRAIG sat at lunch in New York's "21" and purred with pleasure as he rubbed his blood-stained hands. James had just killed a girl. "Before I kill her," said he, in a hoarse undertone. "I play a love scene with her — play it on the level, too. Then I slip my hands around her neck and — " James made a gesture of liquidation. Explaining the motive for the murder he said curtly, "She's in my way, see?" Explaining the "murder" itself, James said, laughing, "It's a scene I did this morning for the MGM film, 'Side Street,' in which, believe it or not, I'm the heavy! I'm the boy! I have a hell of A Holida 40