Word: mclaglen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Victor McLaglen, 62, hulking cinemactor (The Informer, Gunga Din); and Margaret Pumphrey, 48, Seattle socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Reno...
...dramatic times intensifies the rhythms of speech, producing an effect that few other movies have paralleled. The visual effects do not try any labored realism, but concentrate on significant details or on impressionistic views of the city, and the implications become those of timelessness as well as reality. Victor McLaglen is the Judas, the Faust, and although his story relates closely to the particular environment, he is the most important factor himself, and could be transplanted to almost any time or place...
...story of Touhy & Co. (Preston Foster, Victor McLaglen et al.) follows, fairly closely, the story of the original "Terrible" Touhy's last days at large. There are exciting bits in the film, and sharp ones, the cynically mumbled administration of an oath in court; the horrible kicking around of a lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against...
...force coming down. They put up a very nice fight but made the mistake of trying one of those banzai charges . . . our machine guns just chopped them to pieces. One of our men lost the tripod of his machine gun. He picked it up like one of those Victor McLaglen movies and fired...
...Flamboyant Victor McLaglen galloped his gaudy light-horse troop to a Los Angeles jail to sign up for something...