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Word: financierâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier???Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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