Word: desperado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would tell cheering crowds not to get enthusiastic, would say: "Watch the pot on your own stove." If conditions got better, keep Muñoz Marin and his party in office; if not, throw them...
...frankly historical picture, High Sierra shows the last haunted days of "the last great gunman," after the other big shots are gone-"dead or in Alcatraz." The story is classical in its simplicity. Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), an aging desperado, sticks up a resort hotel in California and makes his getaway into the snow-topped Sierras. Hunted by a small army of policemen, he shoots his way out of one trap after another, is cornered at last, keeps shooting...