Word: hatchetman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warden Smith and Deputy Meikrantz were proud of Prisoner Yun's lament.They themselves had inspired Yun to his effort, for they set great store by the lyric abilities of the Chinese. A few years back, a hatchetman inmate had composed an unforgettable Christmas carol entitled: I'd Rather Be in Pekin, Than in Here Peekin...
...forced, by the rules of his tong, to bury his hatchet in the neck of his best friend who, aware that no personal enmity is involved, wills his daughter to his murderer. Complications occur when the daughter (Loretta Young, with braces for her eyes) grows up. She marries the hatchetman but falls in love with a worthless Oriental who takes her to China and sells her into slavery. Robinson with his axe retrieves her. The narrative, sensational and gory, unlikely and over deliberate, resembles a Sunday feature story in a cheap newssheet. Typical shot: an old Tongster (Dudley Digges) registering...