Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summer Night's Dream one can imagine, but as a "G Man" he is right in his element. The film appears to be an accurate account, generally speaking, of the development of the Department of Justice since the new anti-racket federal laws have changed its members from gang-fodder into...
Five years later he was back, organizing the Polish Socialist Party on Russian soil. A few years later found Conspirator Pilsudski doing in Poland exactly what Conspirator Stalin was doing in Russia proper: leading a gang of highway robbers and bank raiders whose object was to seize money for political propaganda. Even in those days Nikolai Lenin knew that Josef Pilsudski was no Socialist at heart. Said...
...Cleveland a gang of sharpers mailed out 30,000 letters with their names at the top of the usual list, thus insuring that if anyone made money on the chain they and they alone would make it. While authorities debated who should raid the gang's headquarters, the sharpers fled with 10,000 printed letters yet unmailed...
...hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph Bellamy to sell out his tottering independent line that they hire an inventor with...
...attract the attention of a girl (Margaret Lindsay) who thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling is over, shows the war between a squad of G men and the Leggett gang, a war characterized by incidents which will remind audiences of the Union Station massacre in Kansas City, the unsuccessful attempt to arrest John Dillinger in his St. Paul apartment and finally the siege of the Little Bohemia roadhouse which, as reenacted in G Men, has very different consequences from...