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...seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone a rival gunman that Slade is paying...
...reliable United Press was to the effect that Alphonse Capone himself had supplied the tip to Roche which led to Brothers' capture. The theory behind this report was that Lingle had been murdered on orders of the North Side Aiello-Zuta gang, that consequent police activity had damaged Gangster Capone's vice and gambling business on the South Side and that the "turning up" of Brothers was simply a Capone device to smooth public outrage and deflect police scrutiny...
Another current suspicion was that Brothers, with no Chicago record as a gangster, was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune as a means of winding up the whole foul Lingle mystery. The announcement of Brothers' capture, carefully timed for a Tribune scoop on the details, coincided with the first meeting of a special Grand Jury investigating Chicago crime and police. Offsetting the "frame-up" theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had "positively identified" Brothers as the "big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye" who had shot Lingle...
Little Caesar (First National). Undoubtedly the most familiar of current screen figures is the fearless, ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling...
Good-looking, self-confident, Reporter Brundidge, 36, is well liked by most St. Louis newsmen but sometimes suspected by his opponents of faking. His critics point to his ostensibly intimate interview with Gangster Al Capone at Miami- which Capone promptly denied (TIME, July 28). But his friends insist that Capone talked as reported, with the stipulation that he would deny it to save his own face. Other Brundidge exploits: expose of the Midwest medical ''diploma mill" scandals of 1924; conviction in 1925 of Ray Renard ("The Fox") of the notorious Egan gang and the solution thereby...