Word: triggerman
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...metaphorical sense, the story also concerns itself with the efforts of a star reporter (Stuart Erwin) to track down the racketeers; the professional vagaries of a tippling public prosecutor (Franchot Tone), and his shilly-shallying with two young ladies (Madge Evans, Louise Henry); the vocational difficulties of the neurotic triggerman (Joseph Calleia) for the numbers racketeers. Best scene in the picture and most gruesome* in the month's crop of such exhibits shows the public prosecutor torturing the triggerman into a wholesale confession of his crimes by beating him, strapping him into a chair, leaving him alone with...
...discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo the anarchists' triggerman will fire his revolver. Good shot: Mrs. Lawrence, in the audience at Albert Hall, watching a gunbarrel emerge slowly from a curtain...