Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czarist Russian adventurer, Count Alexander Nelidoff, who said he had documents linking the German government with the Black Tom saboteurs. McCloy plucked a pencil from Nelidoff's vest pocket to take some notes. The Russian gasped in horror, snatched the pencil back, explained that it was a tiny pistol loaded with gas pellets which could quickly asphyxiate everybody in the room. Later, checking with British Intelligence, McCloy found out that Nelidoff's documents were unreliable, that the Russian himself was a notorious international forger sometimes employed by the Germans to plant phony evidence. He never did find...
...Then you can enter," said the policeman, "but I must search you first." He found a pistol which he promptly took. "I have a pistol permit from your own police chief," Kwon shouted. The policeman laughed. "Nobody except us is going to be armed during this raid," he said. "Enter now if you like...
Bare bulbs glared through the smoky, crowded room. Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill, a husky, 28-year-old Negro, was drunk, but the sheriff got handcuffs on him, and began to question witnesses. Suddenly, the sheriff felt his pistol pulled from the holster, turned to find Picky Pie aiming at his head. Hatcher ducked and the bullet went into the ceiling. In the scuffle, the sheriff's pistol got lost. The sheriff took his prisoner back to town and put him in a cell with another Negro in the jail on the second floor of the sheriff's house...
...slapstick, gotten up as an elaborate spoof of Hollywood westerns, quickly gets out of hand. So does Grable. As a pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of a jail sentence, she again flies off the handle, again dents the judge in the rear. In the last reel she does it a third time...
Even Ham Hammond's mighty flame-pistol could kill it only by destroying all its cells...