Word: stickups
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...poor musical. Ostensibly, it is the tale of a gambler and petty thief who attempts to reform his life. After meeting the millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...
Vocation. In Memphis, a captured stickup man from Washington State Prison told police he had no intention of reforming: "I started out reading crime stories as a seven-year-old kid . . . and decided that was what I wanted...
...Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen are at his heels...
Nothing Personal. In San Antonio the two stickup men who held up the Gult Brokerage Co. returned Office Manager R.E. Diaz' $50 when they learned that was his own money, made off with $300 in office cash after asking to make certain that the firm was insured...
...program gave details on how to snatch 75 Gs' worth of diamonds," he said. "Another showed how to 'case' a bank for a 50-6 stickup. Another told how to blackmail recently widowed women out of 5 or 10-Gs apiece...