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...that this egg matter has been disposed of. I wish information on another line which perhaps some of your readers can give: When I was a kid a long time since, "Who struck Billy Patterson?" was a moot question then much discussed. I think there was a Congressional investigation, but as I was out of the U. S. A. for a number of years I never heard how it was settled. Now I do not care to know why he was struck or where he was struck. BUT WHO STRUCK HIM. It's important...
...Oklahoma Kid (Warner Bros.). Westerns have always been a Hollywood staple. Lately, partly because of the success of Gene Autry and the Hopalong Cassidy series, partly because there is no other type of picture calculated to give so little offense to foreign countries, they have enjoyed a spectacular renaissance. Minor producers who make low-budget Westerns in dozen lots are turning out more than ever. Major producers, inclined to disdain Westerns for the past few years, have not only resumed making them but promoted them to high production budgets...
Already on view are Let Freedom Ring and Stagecoach. In production are Union Pacific, Dodge City and The Return of The Cisco Kid. Projected by the Marx Brothers is an epic entitled Go West, which will aim to end the cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
Amidst the ceaseless stream of Western melodramas flowing annually from the pens of Hollywood script writers, there are a few really first-rate productions. Such a picture is the "Oklahoma Kid." Somehow the hackneyed plot about the outlaw who "goes straight" has been given a unique twist, resulting in eighty minutes of fast moving, swashbuckling action. James Cagney comes through with a thoroughly convincing performance in the title role. Besides looking like a true cowboy, Mr. Cagney shows a depth of character portrayal unusual for pictures of this type. Humphrey Bogart does a fine job as a leering and scheming...
...kid sister to Tracy Lord (Miss Hepburn). Lenor Lonergan proves that not all child prodigies are in Hollywood. Borrowed from the Mercury Theatre, Joseph Cotten proves that some good guys can be found among the rich. Also outstanding are Shirley Booth, as the sharp, brittle-tongued photographer and Van Heflen as the liberal, wealth-bating and Luce hating reporter...