Word: plainclothesman
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Last weekend a plainclothesman sighted Crazy Pete and René drinking with a girl in a Montmartre bistro. René saw the detective edging toward a phone, and suspected the lady friend of betraying him. He shot at her across the table and missed. While bystanders helped the cop subdue René, Pierrot made another escape, out the front door...
...tried & true romantic tale about the French super-crook Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin), who just sneers at the cops as long as he keeps to the native quarter of Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides his time; of a native girl (Yvonne de Carlo), weighed down with costume jewelry, who loves Pépé; and of the French tourist Gaby (Marta Toren), atwitter with diamonds, through love of whom Pépé is lured to disaster...
...Masons Have Got Me." The trail led from grey Clermont-Ferrand to a brooding château at Lamballe in grey Brittany. Last week, up to the forbidding doors of the château walked a plainclothesman. He walked straight into the revolver of the château's owner, Count Edmé de Vulpian. Into the fray, toting Tommy guns, jumped other secret policemen who had been waiting in the shadows that enveloped the castle. Count Vulpian lowered his revolver and surrendered. A search of his château yielded the blue-bound revolutionary "Plan Bleu...
...party broke up after midnight, Morozov, now thoroughly relaxed, the plainclothesman's fish-eyed stare gone from his face, said: "You know the Major here and I often discuss political questions, but it gets boring. We each know exactly what the other is going to say. Now tonight it has been different. It has been interesting...
Where's the Fire? In Albuquerque, N.M., a cab driver bucked a one-way street, crashed a red light, illegally double-parked, collected his fare and a multiple traffic ticket from his passenger, Plainclothesman Bill Bellamy...