Word: nightstick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other able melodramas: NIGHTSTICK ; DRACULA ; CELEBRITY...
...Nightstick. Again the underworld wars with the police; and again the police get both their man and the girl. In a misguided moment this young woman marries a killer, who kills enough people to give Detective Thomas Glennon reason to undertake his extermination. The fact that Mr. Glennon also loves the lady adds impetus. Out of all this grows another of the violent melodramas with which every theatrical season teems. But there is the favorable novelty that Nightstick is vividly acted, shamelessly incredible, and eminently exciting from the disordered, menacing beginning to the inevitably honeyed...
...young woman had a bundle of notes in her hand. A swipe of a nightstick loosened her hold. The papers fluttered into...