Word: mcphillip
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...streetwalker sweetheart (Margot Grahame) for his failure to support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates the issue thus presented...
With the money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing...
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