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Mr. Pat Obrien labors to produce a mechanically adequate detective; Miss Bette Davis is beautiful, in her clipped manner. But the honors for holding this piece together go to Mr. Lewis Stone, Mr. Stone, it is true, is called upon for some difficult scenes. He must lecture his new detective...
The week's big moment came when presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger introduced the written confession of Defendant van der Lubbe made just after the Reichstag fire, led him to acknowledge it in open court. Point by point the bullet-headed Judge went over every detail of the...
On the evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table...
Expert testimony had tended to show that it was impossible for Marinus van der Lubbe alone to have fired the Reichstag, as his confession insisted. Object of the prosecution was to show that the other defendants were his accomplices. Object of the defense was to show that Nazi Storm Troopers...
In outline, the story concerns the contest between the student body of a small-town high school and a peculiarly childish gangster named Louis Garrett (Charles Bickford). When the gangster shoots a Hebrew tailor for refusing to pay for "protection," the schoolboys indignantly try to find evidence that will convict...