Word: gunplay
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Thomas Ripley's new account of Hardin's gory career is a turbulent, romantic book in which guns roar on almost every page, remorseless pistolmen pink each other with grave aplomb, and hair-trigger gunplay is described in purple passages that smoke and crackle. Although he debunks some Western myths, Author Ripley is more interested in relating good, tall, cow-country tales...
Because Crosby, a Yankee, lazily, dislikes gunplay, he declines to duel with a Southern blackguard. In the next few minutes he loses his fiancee, excites the love of her sister (Joan Bennett), is summarily ousted from the plantation of their father. He joins a show boat run by Fields, a Mississippi River commodore who claims to have been an oldtime Indian fighter. When Crosby succeeds in publicly mauling and accidentally shooting a bully, Fields improvises a few lies, turns the crooner into "The Notorious Col. Steele, the Singing Killer...
...deputies outside while Alan and Gabrielle lie on the floor with their arms around each other, should raise audiences' hackles higher than anything on the Manhattan stage since the Group Theatre began producing its blood-&-thunder Red melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know his jig is up when he tells Actress Conklin: "We'll be together always...
When informed of the gunplay in the gallery Vice President Curtis, whose feelings have repeatedly been hurt by the Press, half-jokingly remarked: "Half the fellows up in the gallery ought to be shot. They print nothing but lies. They know they're lies but they go ahead and print them anyway. If Pace does shoot anybody, I'll resign and defend...
Most bank robberies are not executed so slickly as that. For the twelve months ending last August the American Bankers Association reported that three bank employes, two customers, nine peace officers and 38 gunmen had been killed in bank stickups, 124 persons wounded in the gunplay. In the same period bank robberies throughout the land totaled 631-a record. Gross loss was $3,384,117. All but 77 of the robberies were committed in broad daylight...