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...centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies of the bullet intended for him just after discovering that...
...hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into...
...alive in New York for killing a patrolman, fugitive from Sing Sing since 1928, suspected of many a big holdup including the unsuccessful one at Brooklyn Navy Yard (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) had been captured. His girl friend, who fled in the coupe, was taken not long after. Said Badman Nannery, the identity of whose license plates was disclosed in a recent raid on one of his haunts: "I didn't intend to let anybody take me alive. What gets me is the way that hick flat foot kidded me with that poker face...
Awakened in the night, Gangster Diamond was arrested on a charge of assault, taken to jail at Catskill. With feelings akin to those of Badman James Nannery (see p. 16) and of far-famed Killer Fred Burke* who was captured by country detectives after eluding the police of many a big city (TIME, April 6), Gangster Diamond protested, "They're crazy. These guys are crazy...
...would have been a highly exciting thing even without any story at all, is gone. Its absence was never proved more definitely than by The Arizona Kid. For this is no sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog...