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...Hoff is a soldier: he goes through with his plan. There are no hitches. He shoots the Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize he has murdered a man who was not his enemy, who should have been his friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself...
...series of tense sequences, finely directed and photographed, the story moves to the scene in which the inevitable machine rifle volleys death from a second-story window at the gang attempting a getaway. But the gang differs from past cinema gangs in that its members are not millionaires but needy-looking fellows; the good girl would certainly have been bad if she hadn't been watched...
...farmer took Nancy (Louise Brooks) out of an orphanage. For two years he had "pawed over her with his hands." Finally at breakfast one day he attempted to rape her, but she pulled a shotgun from the wall, slew the farmer, protected her honor. She is assisted in her getaway by a casual young hobo (Richard Arlen) who, cinemaddicts are to believe, persevered in a platonic companionship. At a jungle (hobo hangout) her sex is discovered when the Arkansaw Snake (Robert Perry) recognizes the contour of her hips, despite her masculine attire, her cropped hair. But Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery...
...embarrassment. He made Crime the main burthen of his retiring-president address. He even offered a neat classification of causes for Crime's since-the-War increase, as follows: "1) The increase and development in the means of communication, hard roads and high-powered automobiles, making the 'getaway' easy. "2) The vastly increased wealth of our citizens and especially of the criminal classes, enabling them to buy fast motors and expensive guns. "3) Organized crime which enables the underworld to make liberal contributions to political campaigns and to exert a powerful influence in politics. "4) Delay...
...consumption were "less . . . than any of our previous models." Top speed was 65 m.p.h. Getaway and pick-up surpassed many another type of machine. Works. Detroit wiseacres said that production on the new model would be kept down, at first, to around 300 per day. The Ford statement, however, said that all Ford plants were retooled, indicating a readiness to stride out rapidly towards the old Ford supremacy in mass production if the new models -and "moderate" prices-are well received...