Word: crooked
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Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
Every shady move in this fast crook movie has been tested and approved, time & again, at the boxoffice. But the familiar yarn, retold with energy, skill and loving corroborative detail, is still serviceable. John Garfield, head con man in as seedy a gang of characters as ever plotted a swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright...
...zone, some 10,000 German boys have been forgetting how to goosestep while they mastered a new sport-baseball. Egged on by G.I.s, opposing nines have knocked homers and stolen bases while frenzied fans bawled out the umpire with shouts of: "Hornochs! Faulenzer! Dieb!" (Blockhead! Bum! Crook...
Claire Trevor, as art expert O'Brien's intrepid girl friend, shows up in a sensational new hairdo for each new scene, and is nice to look at. Herbert Marshall, who might, at any moment, turn out to be either a crook or a Scotland Yard investi gator, goes about his work with an air of bored relaxation. And if Mr. O'Brien appears to know nothing about art, he obviously knows what thriller addicts like...
...doing in a 13-year-old boy. He himself was about 14 when he ran away from his father's Missouri farm in 1875. For the next couple of decades he bummed around the West, punching cattle, working on the railroad, acting as scout-interpreter for General George Crook and General Nelson A. Miles when they were chasing the Apache terror, Geronimo, up & down the Southwest. Finally, he developed into a "range detective" and special handyman for big Colorado-Wyoming cattlemen. His specialty was dirty jobs...