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Word: villian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...gang of cowboys, some border ballads, and a good many dirty jokes, which it has woven into a play that is called, for want of anything better, "Green Grow The Lilacs." When all this was done a plot involving a swash-buckling cowhand, a shy young maiden, and a villian whose hands dripped with the blood of past crimes, was added for the sake of convention. The result is supposed to represent the Indian Territory...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

...pretty shoddy production. The ponderous vulgarity of Lynn Riggs is unrelieved by any really good acting, and the dialogue is drab and interminable. Anyone who goes to the movies knows the plot. After a painfully long time the villian lies dead by his own uncalculating hands and the hero and heroine are safe in a bedroom. Something of the same idea has been used before...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

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