Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winchester Repeating Arms company should like "White Heat;" the movie utilizes a good number of its products. During the running of James Cagney's re-entry into the bad-man field, the various principals expend nine 30-30 rifle bullets, three dozen 32 caliber special expanding nose pistol cartridges, one blasting charge, and nine size D tear gas shells...
...Martin. He indicated a certain anti-predestinarian divine: "If the man Blanchard is worthy, he is only changing his situation for a better one; and, if unworthy, it is better that one fall than that a thousand souls perish." Robert agreed, and did the deed with a little golden pistol his guardian gave...
...year-old ex-G.I. said little. But he brooded over the "derogatory remarks," of the neighbors. One morning last week he slipped a loaded clip into his Luger pistol, filled his pockets with ammunition, and went out to the sunlit street...
Nobody paid any attention as he sauntered, pistol in hand, into Clark Hoover's barbershop. Inside, a six-year-old boy with a white apron around his neck was sitting astride a raised hobbyhorse. The barber stood beside him clipping busily. Wordlessly, Howard Unruh aimed his pistol. He shot the boy on the hobbyhorse through the chest and head, then fired again and killed the barber...
Playing a paunchy, mother-dependent killer, Cagney empties his pistol into his victim with the calm, preoccupied expression of a pedestrian waiting for a street light to change. There is none of the shock technique of The Public Enemy -no audience-deafening gun blasts, no close-ups of the killer's eyes or of the sickening sprawl of the corpse. The new brutality is streamlined. .White Heat is sprinkled with an improved type of wrist action in blackjacking, so effective that the camera does not even bother to examine the victim. The traditional movie chase, with its essentially simple...