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...blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round and round. This little thimbleful of winged poison is not fooling; he doesn't seem to care who he attacks. And there'd certainly be the devil to pay if he ever got under these covers...
...close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood. For it was she who had sliced off her husband's leg, she who had killed daughter, aunt and seamstress-all to collect insurance. Excoriated as a "devil in petticoats," a "human cobra," Frau Marek was sentenced to death...
Crime School (Warner Bros.) is a mug of cinema mulligan stocked with chunks of such seasoned staples as James Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind...
...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
...conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction." But he was always afraid he was going to be found out. So the poor devil spent his time deceiving his friends about the source of his inspiration, carefully neglected to say that he had read The Countess of Rudolstadt (although to confuse critics he praised George Sand's other novels) and hinted at a dreadful secret in his life...