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Entrusted with money to buy guns for the peasants' revolt, O'Hara lets himself be diverted from his purpose by a pretty girl (Madeleine Carroll) who persuades him to travel by train instead of plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan...
...plot, so intricate that a good deal of the interest lies in following Author Mclntyre's ingenious unwinding of the threads, moves at the pace of popcorn popping over a hot fire. When Pete hid in a secluded rooming house, he found another fugitive there. This pickpocket, when caught with a roll of stolen bills, dropped it in Pete's lap. When he returned for it, after the police released him, Pete poked him in the nose, kept the money. He thereby added another enemy to the horde interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor...
...each of the 16 popped up in the box and cried: "I admit the charge against myself." Asked Prosecutor Vishinsky: "Did you, Zinoviev, organize the Terrorists?" "Yes." "Did you plot the death of Kirov?"- "Yes." "Did you organize the plan to kill Stalin?" "Yes. I am guilty of every charge in the indictment." A few minutes later two other prisoners became tangled in argument with each other as both were rapidly confessing. A third prisoner named Bakayev, a bearded figure in a khaki blouse, arose and loudly interrupted, "I know that Zinoviev ordered his own secretary to kill Stalin!" Said...
...records so great that even his worst enemies quarreled over the honor of killing him; so well-guarded that would-be assassins sat in his presence not daring to pull the trigger; so idolized that Zinoviev's secretary, rather than kill Stalin, killed himself; so lucky that every plot against him failed; and finally so wise that a whole boxful of Bolsheviks intent on killing him did not try to justify themselves by uttering one critical or abusive word against the Perfect Dictator...
...morning last week Russians woke up to face screaming headlines in the Stalin-controlled Press that a plot to assassinate Stalin had just been discovered, that the chief plotters were Trotsky and two other renowned Old Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who for the past 20 months have been in jail in Russia. Some of the 14 plot underlings from abroad were said to have been seized in Russia with credentials which Pravda described as passports forged by the Nazi secret police "amid the screams of tortured Communist heroes." According to Moscow rumors the Dictator was to have been assassinated...