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...Authorities differ on the spelling and significance of Peralta's nickname. Spelled Mate Cocido, it means brewed yerba mate, a native tea, on which the bandit lived during a prison term. Spelled Mate Cosido, it refers to a wound Peralta got in a brush with police, means, in slang, Sutured Conk...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...
...principal square: "Welcome, pals! Come right in-the town's yours." An Aussie soldier hauled down the Italian flag and hauled up his broad-brimmed hat in its place. Another changed the name of the main street from Via Mussolini to Via Ned Kelly-after a famous bush bandit from New South Wales who in his raids on towns defied death by dressing in 97 pounds of iron armor...
Bringing his own team and money with him, Hughes set to work on a story about Oklahoma Bandit Billy the Kid, to be called The Outlaw, to star veteran Actor Walter Huston. No sooner was the shock of this major change absorbed than Fox delivered another, announced that a second independent unit had been signed to furnish two more pictures a year. Backbone of this addition were Stars Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Directors Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men), Anatole Litvak (All This and Heaven...
...honor for fighting men) on his chest. The station at Quantico (Va.) has two such men: Major Herman Hanneken, who got his medal for killing notorious Haitian Bandit Charlemagne Peralte, and Major Christian Schilt, who won his for landing his airplane ten times in the bullet-swept street of Quilali, Nicaragua, to bring in medical supplies and evacuate wounded...