Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters...
"2) Simplification of the criminal codes which will permit more rapid trial, no release on bail, no parole, no suspended sentences, and no segregation for short periods.
Like the late John Dillinger, Al Brady is an Indiana bad boy who got in trouble young, was let out of jail on parole. Also like Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover...
...automobile accident, falls foul of the parole board. A hardened young criminal (Alan Baxter), who knows the ropes, has no difficulties whatever. It takes a series of murders, a scandalous exposé of the methods of a rich building contractor (Alan Dinehart), quick work on the part of the parolee's onetime cellmate (Grant Mitchell) to produce reforms...
Adapted by Kubec Glasmon (Public Enemy), Horace McCoy and the New York Herald Tribune's onetime crack crime reporter, Joel Sayre, Parole is unlikely to affect the U. S. penal system but it should not disappoint cinemaddicts who like rapid-fire entertainment. Typical shot: Noah Beery Jr., no gorilla...