Word: thrillers
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China Seas, the tropical thriller now playing at the University, opens with a shot of Captain Clark Gable reeling home to his ship (the pride of the line) after a three day drunk in Hong Kong. Waiting for him on board are Jean Harlow, looking alluring as ever, Mr. Robert Benchley, drunk again, and Rosalind Russell, who has travelled fifteen thousand miles to reclaim her bibulous sea-captain...
...served on its early board of directors. Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime (1897-1906) Governor of New Mexico, gave further proof of Otero vitality when he offered, in the first volume of his reminiscences, a book that is often as exciting as an old-fashioned Western thriller, sometimes as quaint as the society column in a frontier newspaper, but in general an amusing, informative, absorbing piece of work...
...modern and urban equivalent for the now defunct Wild West thriller, "G-Men," the terrier-like James Cagney swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...
...CAMBERWELL BEAUTY-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Kidnapping, black magic, the Mafia, love and other forms of pursuit; in short, a story half-fantasy, half-thriller...
...Death Files East" is a thriller which improves as it progresses. Hollywood machinery creaks dismally and obviously in the beginning, but as passengers drop dead in the aisles of a transcontinental air liner and the race against time seems more and more hopeless, it is possible to arouse interest. The solution has twist much as an O. Henry short story and left us with a satisfied feeling. The Oriental, whose name we didn't get, was much too charming to be an international thief. The valuable papers were delivered to Washington into the safe hands of the Patent Office...