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Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...
Notable for its lack of continuous gun-play. "The Angel and the Badman" has painstakingly sidestepped one of the most overworked angles of current westerns with excellent results. Where the hero generally announces his fast draw in the first scene and proceeds to prove his point for ninety dreary minutes, John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script...
...ignoring the forty-year-old axiom that a horse opera is judged solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
Whether "The Angel and the Badman" is the signal of a long awaited intellectual renaissance among western producers or whether it will he pigeon-holed as a noble experiment, the block long queues at the Paramount and Fenway are an accurate indication of public taste and appreciation...
John Dillinger, most famed modern badman, beat a rap twelve years after he was shot dead. The prosecutor's office in Lake County, Indiana, was just getting around to dismissing an old murder indictment against...