Word: ambusher
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...satire. Perelman did not burn out, but he has cooled off. Having become a money-earning professional, he collaborated on a novel (Parlor, Bedlam & Bath) and a play (All Good Americans); gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films; with his wife wrote the script for Ambush, a Grade-B production which was one of the best shows of 1939; and settled down on a farm in Pennsylvania's Bucks County which he bought from Michael Gold. More recently he has run a radio show (Author, Author); and for seven years he has been writing pieces...
...richest citizen, owner of thousands of acres of cotton and timber land, the end of all arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last week somebody shot him from ambush. John Thomas, Mound Bayou's marshal, declared the shooting was done by persons unknown. All he knew was that Old Man Booze was dead...
...hold the easy pickings of bootlegging, the U. S. underworld went to war. It was an internecine affair of ambush and the double cross. Along Jersey highways from the shore, where rum runners landed their cargoes, runners and highjackers fought it out in the night. In New York City, men were shot discreetly in basement saloons. In Detroit and St. Louis, guns banged on street corners, men died at high noon...
...Despite thousands of former Loyalists imprisoned and executed by the New Spain, underground resistance remains. Fortnight ago Major Gabaldon's chauffeur halted his automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...
Compared to the boredom induced by the super-patriotic outbursts of the major feature, "Ambush" is entertaining. Unlike "Wings" it does contain some acting, and although the plot is unoriginal, at least it moves quickly enough to maintain interest. Popeye steals the show...