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Word: badmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's best about it is probably Lee Marvin. Dressed in snaky black, with a silver schnozz tied on where his nose used to be before "it was bit off in a fight," Marvin soberly parodies several hundred western badmen of yore, then surpasses himself as the dime-novel hero, Kid Shellen. A "good" killer, the Kid arrives in town unable to live up or even stand up to his legend. His eyes are bloodshot from poring over whisky labels. On ceremonial occasions he wears a corset. When he is primed with rotgut, his fast draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wags Out West | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...they are not working too close to him. He is more Penrod than Sammy Glick. Up and down the Rialto, he first-names doormen and kisses headwaiters in theatrical hangouts. He even kisses Producer David Merrick. He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter. On one memorable occasion he turned a chocolate mousse upside down on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: I Believe in You | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). A zany cops-and-robbers farce whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 7, 1961 | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). A zany cops-and-robbers farce whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...just after the Nazi surrender. In Kanal, a group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom A welcome break in the lowering skv comes with Eve Wants to Sleep, a zany cops-and-robbers farce, whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

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