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...Side. He had been hardened by a stretch in a Catholic protectory in The Bronx, where the brothers belted him with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated the sight of uniformed cops, who could spot a plainclothes dick in a subway crush, who knew how to steal "anything begun with an A. A piece of fruit. A watch. A pair of shoes. A bicycle. Anything...
Played less as a comedy than other Guinness films of this type, The Detective makes up in clever dialogue what it lacks in suspense and visual gags. Anyone who found The Lavender Hill Mob enjoyable should like this only a little less. It just seems a shame that the fine character of Kind Hearts and Coronets, Oliver Twist and the Mudlark should become as much of a type, and be handled in the same way as Francis the talking mule...
...There is no better illustration of racial prejudice . . . than an incident as the mob began gathering before Slaton's home, immediately after his courageous commutation of Frank's death sentence became known...
Albert R. Israel, for many years one of the most widely known Associated Press men in the South, was then a member of its Atlanta staff. When word came that the mob was assembling, Israel set sail for the scene with this parting admonition: "Fellows, if you want to get in touch with me, I'll be at the so-and-so drugstore at 9 o'clock, but if you telephone, for God's sake don't ask for Israel. Ask for Mr. O'Leary...
Governor Slaton knew that he was committing political suicide, but he was not prepared for the violence of the reaction. In Atlanta, a mob marched up Peachtree Street to the Governor's home, had to be driven off by armed militiamen. In Marietta (where Mary Phagan was born and buried), another mob of some 40 unmasked men was organized, drove off to Milledgeville penitentiary, where Frank was imprisoned. Brandishing guns, they forced their way inside and dragged Leo Frank from his bed. Then they drove the 150 miles back to Marietta and hanged Leo Frank from a pine tree...