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Corsica's fourth best-known product: burly, pouting Bandit Andre Spada. Spada, whose name means ''sword," acquired much newspaper fame from loose comparisons of his activities with those of the oldtime Corsican mountaineers. who waged simple vendettas against one another. Andre Spada was just a gangster...
...Little Giant (First National) is a highly satisfactory sequel to many of Edward G. Robinson's earlier pictures. It shows him as a retired Chicago gangster, doing his best to lead a life of moneyed case at Santa Barbara. In retirement. Francis J. ("Bugs") Ahearn conceals the source of his wealth, promptly sets about joining what he thinks is the Santa Barbara bean monde. He becomes betrothed to an alluring blonde (Helen Vinson), learns enough polo to join a local team, buys a $600,000 share of her father's brokerage business, secures an immense mansion. complete with...
...converted drunks and burglars who could denounce sin after knowing it firsthand. But the most modern and thorough| going sinners are organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative Lou Hill's career was strong-arming...
...Crowe (no longer State's Attorney) said last week that he had never heard of Lou Hill, that he would never have sent a gangster away, after such a story, with a "God-bless...
...have been expected. It is a dingy and violent melodrama, more explicit: about macabre aspects of sex than any previous products of Hollywood. Naturally enough Pop-Eye, the least lovable character in Sanctuary, docs not appear at all in The Story of Temple Drake. Temple is raped by the gangster who, in the book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant. She takes a liking to him forthwith, accompanies him from the ramshackle 'leggers hideaway where an automobile accident has stranded her to more commodious quarters in a city sporting house. When her respectable suitor calls there to subpena...