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Dodge City's première was the most notable thing about it. The picture itself is a good, noisy Technicolor, flag-waving Western, enlivened by Ann Sheridan, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn and a knock-down drag-out saloon fight. So continual is the random gunfire that cinemaddicts might guess that the place took its name from the necessary behavior of the inhabitants...
...Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many years under various guises. One of the most interesting scenes is the thunder and lightning clash of Pross and Madame DeFarge in the first knock-down and dragout fight between women we have seen on the screen...
...large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable Campbellite Church. When...
...belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow to a faith in democracy...
...miners' hovels at nearby Scots' Run. Once the property of Col. John Fairfax of Virginia, whose friend George Washington surveyed part of it, Reedsville was purchased by the Government last year from Farmer Richard M. Arthur. In its 50 white model cottages of the ready-made knock-down type are electric lights, modern plumbing, coal stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, double-decker beds and (by special request) bathtubs...