Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Valley (Warner) is a story about lonely people, and what the breakdown of their loneliness does for them-and to them. A remote California farm is abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course...
...insides of a steam boiler in Chicago's Northwestern Station; the noise was terrific. A band was playing and some of the fellows and their wives were singing The Old Grey Mare and some more were singing Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here. Lean Jim Dowling bent over his tiny wife and yelled at her: "I'm not kidding. I'm just about sick with excitement. Think of all the wonderful things we're going...
Evasive Action. Near Centerville, Va., seven days after a member of a road gang stepped on a hornets' nest and the whole gang scattered for cover, cops were still looking for one who scattered out of sight...
Cowards & Coyotes. Terrified, the boy confessed that he rang the bell as a signal for his gang's nightly "operations"-burglary, smashing windows, bombing. Father Swartsfager ordered him to summon his gang. When the boys showed up, one by one, he started preaching. He called them cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically...