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...Fluff (Bette Davis), at a hotel orgy, Ward finds himself plunged into a melange of chicanery, gun feuds and undercover romance. Grooming Ward for the championship is for Nick subsidiary to his main purpose of revenging himself on the champion's manager, a gunman named Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered when Nick suspects his protege of an intrigue with Fluff. Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion...
...this point a new and tender note enters his life. He is struck by an appealing little girl who has trouble walking because of a poorly act broken leg. They become fast friends, and O'Malley learns that she is the daughter of one John Phillips (Humphry Bogart) whom he has railroaded to the State Prison. Realizing his shortcomings, he has a famous doctor reset the girl's leg, obtains a parolo for Phillips, and, in short, "goes soft...
...presented by O'Brien the story is just so much drivel. The entire picture falls flat simply because the part is a delicate one to handle, and he fails to lend any plausibility to it. Humphry Bogart is excellent as Phillips, but Sybil Jason fails to arouse much sympathy as the child...
Black Legion (Warner). Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), machine-shop worker, has just made arrangements to buy a new car for his wife Ruth (Erin O'Brien-Moore) when he learns that the foreman's job he was counting on has gone to a young Pole. His disappointment makes him susceptible when invited to join a secret organization whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from taking jobs away from U. S. workmen. Ensuing developments, derived from the activities of Detroit's "Black Legion," make the pic ture one of the most effective in Warner Brothers series of industrial...
...Isle of Fury" is a scenario writer's nightmare, containing every possible dramatic situation with the exception of the World War. Margaret Lindsay and Humphrey Bogart, he of the underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives...