Word: gunfight
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...Grable formula, Director Sturges comes perilously close to forgetting the Grable form. Betty sings only a couple of songs, gets no chance to dance at all, and gives only two rather fleeting leg shows, once in an old-fashioned Pullman berth and again in the midst of a gunfight. A Sturges experiment is always worth watching, but most moviegoers would probably have settled for more Grable and fewer gags...
From there on, complications and cliches roll up like thunderheads around a low-pressure area. After some improbable, fast moving action, including a running gunfight through a Central American fiesta, Taylor gets his three men, as well as Ava, and salvages a little tarnished honor...
...Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...
...blue-eyed, brown-haired Vetterli was born in Salt Lake City in 1903, joined the FBI soon after getting a law degree from Washington, D.C.'s George Washington University in 1925. He was one of the FBI men in the Kansas City Union Station massacre (1933), the gunfight in which "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his gang tried to free Gangster Frank Nash, and in which four officers were killed. On that occasion Vetterli was grazed by a bullet under the left arm. But Nash was killed (Floyd got away). Vetterli was the FBI agent in Kansas City when Mary...
...violence than George W. (for nothing) Barrett. Five years ago he killed his 73-year-old mother. After pinking his sister he gave her such a beating with a gun butt that she died six weeks later. At Manchester, Ky. in 1932 he participated in a five-hour gunfight which cost the lives of two kinsmen. Last summer this prodigal career reached its cli max when Barrett, pursued by a pair of G-men for violating the Federal motor vehicle theft law, shot and killed Agent Nelson B. Klein at West College Corner, Ind. Last week at Indianapolis...