Word: mclaglen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention...
...Nancy Steele is Missing" which stars Victor McLaglen and Walter Connolly is a depressing though well acted picture. Based on the kidnapping of the daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist, the film covers a period of twenty years during which McLaglen, the kidnapper, is sent to prison for a minor crime...
Peter Lorre also shares the honors as a friendly but sinister adventurer who discovers McLaglen's secret and proceeds to capitalize on it. The plot of the films is excellent and well handled by a competent cast...
...glories of the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the combined air forces of all three have been subjects of Hollywood endeavor, and nauseam. This is, so far as this reviewer knows, the first time anyone's gotten the licks in on the Coast Guard. And, guess what, Victor McLaglen is the swaggering hard-drinking pride of the force...
...McLaglen's performance is careful and restrained. As Danny O'Neill, the kidnapper of Nancy Steele, he fits perfectly into a role which might easily have been mishandled by a less capable actor. Excellent acting is also contributed by Peter Lorre in a typical snake-in-the-grass part, by Walter Connolly as the father of the kidnapped girl, and by June Lang as Nancy Steele...