Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around Madrid, "the hottest battle of the war was being fought last week for the capital. Blood was up on both sides. Radicals and Whites scrambled out of their trenches calling each other names and demanding hand-to-hand fights. After an exchange of machine gun fire, there lay dead 50 Radicals, 50 Whites. With grim determination Generalissimo Franco spat out orders that White officers who could not control their men were to be shot. Meantime White bombers winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation...
...suddenly appeared with ten G-men, proposed an immediate raid. Refusing to wait for police headquarters to be notified, the No. 1 G-man and his squad rapped on Brunette's door, got a splatter of bullets for answer. For an hour they pumped revolver, rifle and submachine-gun bullets, tossed tear gas bombs into the apartment. Its Venetian blinds ignited. Firemen came, and were caught in the cross fire between desperado and G-men. Shot in the thigh, Brunette's wife staggered out of the smoking apartment. His pistols empty, Brunette soon followed with hands...
...raping, killed her mother and brother. Then he rejoined Constable Gallagher, downed a drink with him, asked to be taken to the home of the social worker who had brought the rape charge against him. When she answered the door, he fired a fifth fatal shot, handed his gun to Gallagher. When Gallagher and Sullivan finally reached their destination, police jailed the accommodating constable...
...from the Civil War. Best sequence in the picture comes when Wild Bill has killed Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally he does...
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