Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penrod would not have been profitable to make. The director, William Beaudine had his due from that greatest of all prompters, the box-office, to film a mere series of boy's pranks taking place in this present year of 1931. The results is comparable to a good "Our Gang" comedy, which though marred by as low beginning and a lame ending, reaches considerable heights in the middle...
...newshawks looked temporarily baffled, then went out and began writing stories about who would succeed Snorkey as gang chief. Consensus was that it would be cocky, sleek-haired Hymie Levin, not his quieter lieutenant, Murray Humphries. Editor Jack Leach of The Daily Northwestern, student paper at Northwestern University, published an editorial entitled "Get This, Capone," warning Snorkey not to attend any more football games...
Unfortunately for Harworth he is forced into choosing Molina (who strongly resembles Scarf ace Capone); he finds himself unwilling accessory to a killing, soon realizes that he is caught between the millstones of gang warfare. When Molina falls, Harworth goes with him. If cinema audiences continue to favor gang pictures, The Silver Eagle should make money as a film...
...Star Witness", one half the bill which is being shown at the University, is a film which owes its merit to the sincerity of the acting, rather than to any excellences of plot. It is the story of a family who became enmeshed in the toils of a gang because they have been the only witnesses to a murder committed in front of their home...
...murderer is brought to trial, and the gang's efforts to prevent the Leeds family from testifying takes the form of physical coercion. When the father refuses to be bribed into silence, his child is held hostage. To save the life of the young boy the entire family decide to withhold its knowledge of the killing, that is, all but the inordinately chauvinitsic grandfather, relic of Bull Run, who refuses to be intimidated by a "bunch of yellow-bellied foreigners". At the climax the child is rescued, and the Civil War veteran gives the testimony that sends the killer...