Word: badmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thieves who are busily engaged in stealing from one another, each unaware that the other band is devoted to the same purpose. By the time that this point is cleared up, Betty Compson (who has been a detective all along) arrests both bands of robbers. Though totally ineffective as badmen, the thieves are comparatively comic, which is what they are intended...
Spurs and six-guns of long-dead badmen are still to be kicked up from the sand and cactus of the Colorado plains. Buffalo skulls and stage-coach axles still bleach and rust in forgotten gulches of the Rocky Mountain foothills. But the West is "civilized," has been for some time, and with it Colorado. The funicular up Pike's Peak is 35 years old and for 21 years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles...
Zander the Great. A lovely nurse girl trying to find among Arizona badmen the father of her tiny ward is the kernel of this tale. It is fed forth with all the usual garnishings of hard riding, sheriffs and a sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...