Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck-length wig, vigorous, clean-cut Cinemactor Lodge seems to have found a niche in British cinema. So pleased were his producers by his work in Ourselves Alone that he is now under a long-term starring contract. Already announced is Sensation, from Basil Dean's play Murder Gang, in which he will appear as a tough reporter...
...when she told him about her past, an incredible autobiography revolving around massacres, torture, rape, underground terrorist activity. During the last big French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next met, Lena had joined a gang of Albanian pillagers about to attack the village, explaining that she had done so in order to catch Serbian spies. Her main concern at the moment, however, was to manage his escape. But De Queslain, who still thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that...
...James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going through a detour where a road gang was working...
...fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses. The conflict reaches its peak in a magnificent free-for-all when, racing to put down the last three miles of line before their contract expires...
...only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt by turning a hose on them...