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Naturally, Los Angeles, proud of its wonderful climatic conditions, industries, scenery, bows its head in blushing shame whenever Sister Aimee runs re-amok, or when Rev. Bob bursts out in a new orgy of political blasphemy. Also ashamed was it of Mr. Wilshire, whose high-priced quackery brought a lot of unwarranted lowbrow publicity on its head. Let's get the inference right next time. How about...
Storm Over Asia (Amkino). A Mongol hunter, mulcted out of a silver fox skin by a Russian fur tycoon, runs amok and flees for his life. In the mountains he encounters kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns...
Morocco. The village of Ben Guerir topped all records with an official temperature of 131° Fahrenheit. Throughout Morocco camels, donkeys ran amok. The important Casablanca Marrakesh Railway canceled all daytime trains...
...Manhattan, when Fred Roth put three nickels in succession into a pay-station telephone and got no response, Fred Roth ran amok, ripped out the door of the booth, punched a policeman's nose, landed in jail...
...Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...