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...week, this much was known: at 11:07 p.m., the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) radioed Cleveland: SHIP OVER PARKMAN. FOUR THOUSAND FEET ALTITUDE. EVERYTHING O.K. A few minutes later Radio Operator James C. Wynne, in the Cleveland Airport control tower, saw the plane and prepared to "talk" Pilot James Brandon in to a landing. Suddenly the DST disappeared...
...veteran of nine campaigns with the Army of the Potomac, lit out in 1867 to join the 29th Infantry at Fort Camden, Tex. He was not long in getting involved with a colorful crew of filibusterers. The first step was when he fell for a beautiful "rebel hellcat" named Brandon Hawkes who led him on only long enough to frame him for the murder of a carpetbagger. The real murderer was her cousin Ranee Hawkes, chief gunrunner and suitor for a rich, fabulous Texas beauty named Vashti Silver, who had been commissioned by old Sam Houston to carry...
...dangerous trail led him to death's door and over the Mexican border, to rescue his enemy; when at last it doubled home, Brandon came halfway to meet him, was willing to go further than that to keep her "blue-bellied Yank" for good...
...shows Parnell dying of a stroke almost immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...
Criminal Lawyer (RKO) adds nothing to the standard pattern of courtroom melodramas. Engaged to a girl he does not love and working for a notable criminal, shyster Lawyer Brandon (Lee Tracy) ditches both when he encounters a pretty streetwalker (Margot Grahame) in night court and when he is offered the district attorney's job. This lands him in both marital and legal hot water which reaches the boiling point in the inevitable courtroom finale. Portraying four other court battles as well, Criminal Lawyer obtains its only tinge of interest from the clever cross-questioning tactics of Lawyer Brandon...