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Amidst the ceaseless stream of Western melodramas flowing annually from the pens of Hollywood script writers, there are a few really first-rate productions. Such a picture is the "Oklahoma Kid." Somehow the hackneyed plot about the outlaw who "goes straight" has been given a unique twist, resulting in eighty minutes of fast moving, swashbuckling action. James Cagney comes through with a thoroughly convincing performance in the title role. Besides looking like a true cowboy, Mr. Cagney shows a depth of character portrayal unusual for pictures of this type. Humphrey Bogart does a fine job as a leering and scheming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...Department of Justice to do a new job-protect civil liberties. He said that protecting the rights of a "protesting and insecure" people was a matter close to his heart. > Frank D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Murphy's successor as Governor of Michigan, last week asked his legislature to outlaw sit-down strikes, of which his predecessor had plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mr. Murphy's Heart | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...outlaw sit-downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Lawyers' Advice | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...dime novels" (price, 5?) about Jesse Woodson James were published by Street & Smith, sold about 6,000,000 copies. Last week, to coincide with the release of the $2,000,000 cinema epic, the original publishers reprinted No. 1 of the series, Jesse James, the Outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Jesse James, the Outlaw and its sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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