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...start out as slum kids. After they have been caught pilfering a freight car, Mr. Cagney saves Mr. O'Brien's life by yanking him out of the way of a locomotive. This is really a pity, since one grows into a reforming priest, the other a big shot gangster. Their paths cross years later, and you know the rest as well as Warner Brothers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

...Jewish race" (as some Nazis term it) are wanted to pay for such vital imports as Germany cannot get by barter deals. The Schwarze Korps, influential Nazi newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's personal Elite Guard and the Blackshirt Storm Troops, has openly hinted at the burgeoning of this gangster-blackmail scheme for several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: These Individuals! | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Gangster's Boy (Monogram). Adolescent comedy drama showing how the high school career of a potential West Point athletic star (Jackie Cooper) is blighted by the reputation of his racketeer father (Robert Warwick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...latter and regrets it. Luther Adler as the fighter is excellent, and Francis Farmer as his embittered Sweetheart gives a fine performance though she lacks dramatic finesse at times. Perhaps the best performance is presented by Morris Carnowsky as the fighter's father. Sanford Meisner is perfect as the gangster manager, and high honors are also due to Roman Bohnen as Miss farmer's elderly lover. Art Smith as the trainer, and John O'Malley as the fighter's brother...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

King of Alcatraz (Paramount). That old favorite, the escaped gangster disguised as somebody's great-aunt, in a lively melodrama otherwise distinguished chiefly by the complete absence of star names from the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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