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Perhaps the most incredible scene in the picture is when Frank James, armed with a battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin...
...paced his room in San Francisco's Hotel Stewart last week, Isaac Garrett Fox neither looked nor felt like a desperado. He was 53-a sallow, nervous man who wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...except the employees under the cover of the concealed pistol of the smaller "pock-marked" desperado realized that the two smoke bombs discharged were merely a blind for a robbery...
...solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
Nine Notches. From then on, there was great respect for Elfego and his triggerfinger in New Mexico. He killed five more men at various times-all, he said, in self-defense. The threat of a gun duel with Baca was usually enough to calm any New Mexican desperado. As the country quieted, Elfego studied law, became county clerk, district attorney, school superintendent, mayor of Socorro. As a prosecutor, he sent many murderers to their deaths. As a defense attorney, he won acquittal for 19 out of 20 clients charged with murder. One story (probably apocryphal): a client wired him from...