Word: bandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served in the War, Navy and National Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...
Torrid Zone abounds in such robust action, in rowdy wisecracks by the men, catty wisecracks by the girls, skirmishes with a broad-minded bandit (George Tobias), falsetto funny business by Andy Devine, much sweltering and sweating by Messrs. Cagney and O'Brien. Oomph Girl Sheridan is never affected by the heat. She hops on & off moving banana trains, gets thrown in & out of jail, never even needs to change her one immaculate dress...
...priest in a hypothetical Red-ruled Mexico. Small, shabby, bad-toothed, alternately disguised as tramp or peon, he cunningly eludes a fanatic young police lieutenant, ditches a burrlike stool pigeon, at last walks deliberately into a trap when he is summoned to hear the confession of a dying gringo bandit...
...highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West spreads her gorgeous corolla (including a butterfly bow that coyly punctuates her posterior rhythms) in Greasewood City, one of the West's wide-open places. There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes...
...General Fu Tso Yi, who sent out a call for a bandit-suppression corps only to have most of the bandits sign up, delighted to double their earnings by plundering at night, suppressing themselves...