Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
...assaults of Godless teaching. When President Cardenas last week gave Canabal the portfolio of Agriculture a good many people breathed easier. They thought it meant that the new Administration will lean toward more drastic enforcement of Mexico's radical expropriation laws ("Land to the peons!") and ease up a bit on the Church. Taking no chances, pious mobsters showered Canabal with stones when they caught his motor car leaving the home of ex-President Calles at Cuernavaca, screamed "Curse Canabal! Curse...
...gags of Sheekman, Perrin and Johnson, the songs of Donaldson, K a h n, Lane, Adamson and Berlin, the dances of Seymour Felix, and the color combinations of Willy Pogany you have a Goldwynesque extravaganza that will wow you for a full hour and a half without the slightest bit of effort on your part. Despite the fact that some of the gags are already great-grandparents, Director Roy Del Ruth puts the products of these stars together into such a truly creditable production that you forget that Cantor is doing and saying much the same thing that...
Mingled with all this fun we find a bit of tragedy--a certain passenger is on the verge of stimulating another South American revolution but this worthy undertaking is nipped in the bud by a timely assassination. This occasions the climax of the picture--the bulletridden corpse plus a tender photo of the corpse's children. This note of tragedy serves to emphasize the amusing sequences of the film, the clever contrast of comedy and pathos is effective. This is the technical triumph of the film...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow bit...