Word: brigand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excerpt: "Around Deadwood Dick, whose real name was Richard Clarke, were woven romance and daring. But much written about him was fiction. He was not a desperado, not a bandit, stage-coach robber, or brigand. ... He was a good citizen, a necessarily rough character in the days when it was part of the life of the west, but withal not a bad man. . . . He was born in England, baptized and confirmed in the Church of England...
Hell Harbor (United Artists). Jean Hersholt, the cinema's foremost exponent of a new, modern kind of villainy, a villainy with depth, individuality and something understandable and human about it, is here a German brigand who makes a good living buying and selling the produce of an obscure island in the Caribbean Sea. Among his current deals is one, negotiated with the lady's father, for possession of Lupe Velez. Like Hersholt, Miss Velez has a specialty in her acting: she is a professional Latin spitfire. Director Henry King, whose specialty is the reproduction of romantic and dangerous...