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...theatre adage that a gun which appears in the first act is sure to shoot someone by the end of the third. So when Gilman Hadley proclaims his belief in the ultimate justice of the law, the audience is well prepared to watch him suffer a fate just slightly better than death...
...Hadley was a real person, a southern veteran of the Civil War who went to prison in 1867 for aiding guerilla raiders to escape capture. Hadley, played by Sterling Hayden, served time in Hellgate Military Prison near Copper City, New Mexico. The Hellgate of the movies, called America's Devil's Island, includes a subterranean series of barred caves, a tender hearted commandant, a sadistic sergeant, and enough tortures to send chills along the spine of Charles Addams...
Hayden is very good as the martyred Hadley. He underplays a part that would tempt a lesser actor to pour on the bathos with one eye on the camera and the other on the Academy Award. Ward Bond is in the unlikely role of a soft-spoken but venomous prison commandant. Bond is usually loud-spoken, and someboy's best cavalry sargent. But he does not become rank conscious, and his promotion suits...
Four Day Campaign. The Barkleys-the Veep, Mrs. Barkley and her daughter Jane Hadley-rolled into Chicago three days before the convention, and the candidate's first act was to pin a lightning button to his lapel. Then, to prove how young he still was at 74, he led a procession five blocks through the sultry heat to his headquarters in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At a full-dress press conference that afternoon, his eyes looked a little tired, and his pink face seemed slightly drawn with lines of weariness. But as the Veep went through his catalogue...
...again." But Barkley made himself one of the best-known Vice Presidents in history. His grandchildren tagged him "the Veep," a national title that delighted the headline writers. And in 1949 the headlines followed hot on the Veep's coattails as he courted and won the winsome Widow Hadley of St. Louis, and took her home to Washington and Paducah...