Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles County's big-nosed, big-talking, grandstanding District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts-whom the Clinton reformers had long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that...
...story opens with the murder of his first victim, a seedy reporter, who is mixed up with a rival gang. A neat strangulation, this murder goes on the police records as heart failure. But two flaws turn up. One is a buxom, sentimental blonde, a sort of Mae West figure of Justice, who suspects that her friend the reporter has met foul play, gradually uncovers the evidence herself. The other is a mousy, 17-year-old waitress who knows the weak point in Pinkie's alibi. To shut the waitress' mouth, Pinkie cold-bloodedly makes love...
...MURDER MAKES A MERRY WIDOW- Robert George Dean-Crime Club ($2). Two private detectives solve the murder of a Midwest newspaper columnist, who in his spare time dabbles in blackmail. Plot: ingenious. Action: swift. Unless a reader is tired of the tough, hard-drinking detectives, a good buy or borrow...
When Were You Born? (First National-Warner Bros.) : Anna May Wong in a murder mystery which engagingly demonstrates the merits of astrology as an aid to tracking down desperate criminals...
...planned features, allows for but one million-dollar film, Men with Wings. Paramount's most important trend will be toward romantic U. S. history, with Union Pacific and The Texans. Other specials: If I Were King, with Ronald Colman; Knights of the Round Table; The Grade Allen Murder Case...