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Seasoned Director Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Our Town) turns tail on his recent fragile work to make of Rangers of Fortune the most thrilling and funny movie brawl of the current Western craze. Without losing a gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
...trollops and floozies. Six years ago, when one of Cadmus' shore-leave frolics was hung in a Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, the late Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N. got good & mad. Said he: "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable drunken brawl wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers. . . . This is an unwarranted insult. . . ." Painter Cadmus' canvas was promptly taken down...
...Flashman. With a British accent imperfectly disguising Cinemactor Halop's Dead End manners, Flashman and his stooges steal Tom's food, almost break his back, torture him by roasting over an open fire. Tom spurs his friends to a revolt against Flashman, culminating in a nose-busting brawl between the two leaders bloodier than anything hitherto exhibited in the juvenile cinema...
...Famed conman and gambler, shot in 1898 in a Skagway brawl. * Correct "Labor omnia vincit...
Chicago police rounded up a citizen whose name would have sent cold shivers down their backs ten years ago. The man: Matthew Capone, 31 (youngest, favorite brother of Al Capone), wanted for questioning about a brawl in a barbecue stand over an argument about payment of a dinner check...