Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zasu Pitts carries the brunt of the work, doing a much more careful job as the gangster's moll than Ruth Chatterton, whose sobs as the mother bereft never equal the gusto of that master of the choked gurgle, Mr. Al Jolson (applause, a little scattered). When Mickey Bennett sits on the sofa with the little girl with the curls, and she attempts to pull his head down on her juvenile and probably bony breast, and he draws away, she says: "Don't you understand?" It's a talkie...
There were many possible reasons for the massacre but only one motive-jungle justice. Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept. 17). And a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Detroit's "Purple Gang" to Capone was hijacked last fortnight, presumably by Moran...
...Gangster Capone was reported to be lolling innocently in Miami Beach, Fla., on St. Valentine...
Weary River. Richard Barthelmess has just the kind of pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts...
Gang War.* No gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with...