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...three major copper-producing countries. At the same time, supplies of other nonferrous metals are tightening, and prices are rising. In the last 18 months, tin has gone from $1.22 to $1.75 per lb., tungsten from $1.40 to $2.03, vanadium from $2.45 to $3.40. Mercury is so short that badmen in the Southwest, aping the Atlanta copper capers, have in the last four months stolen an estimated $70,000 worth of mercury from unattended gas-well meters...
...prisoner dies, hounded to his doom by a sadistic guard. Subsequently, the entire camp boils over in a cell-block riot that becomes a triumph for the sergeant major-and for Actor Andrews, who struts through the scene with malevolent skill, clearly a match for the best of movie badmen...
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...
...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...
...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...