Word: crooke
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Frank is a young bum who has done time for vagrancy and assault but works when he has to, gambles when he can, is still more of a smart hobo than a dumb crook. At a California lunchstand and filling station he panhandles the Greek proprietor for a meal, changes his mind about moving on when he sees the Greek's wife, Cora. The Greek offers him a job. He takes it and in 24 hours Cora too. She hates her husband but has too much sense to run away with Frank. Instead, she suggests they murder the Greek...
...Good Dame" tells the story of a young crook in the carnival business who takes money from unsuspecting fools in the game of Ace, King, Queen. His name is Mace, and he falls in love with a girl who has been filched of all her money by his partner in crime. The girl is Sylvia Sidney, and you are mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress...
...English. In The Story of Temple Drake, Miriam Hopkins was a well-bred girl whose association with low characters led to unpleasant doings in a cornbin. In All of Me she is a patrician girl, selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island, swims across the East River, rescues his mistress from a reformatory and commits suicide by jumping...
...necessary social notches that separated him from the girl of his dreams. Safely married to her, with his own house and car, he thought he ought to be happy. But Walter was no fool. He had not worked for Tasker long before he knew his boss was a crook. But by that time he was an accessory to many a damning irregularity. As he watched Tasker pull himself out of one ticklish position after another, Walter began to hope that everything would eventually be all right. But even Tasker could not beat the Depression. The inevitable rumor started the inevitable...
...required to portray a character not like the rest of humankind, and yet not strange enough to be got over with a bit of heavy "character acting," Dr. Haggett, finding that Chris' pictures are immensely valuable just after he has given them away to a crook, is in a rather difficult position; when he finds further that his maid Abby has one more of the pictures, and sells it for twenty-five thousand, only to have her refuse to part with it, he is in a still more trying spot; and when he learns that Abby has seventeen...