Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revolution after the unsuccessful revolt of 1905. When first seen, Maxim (Boris Chirkov) is stumping off to work cheerfully enough with his two companions, Andrei and Dyoma. Andrei is killed in a factory accident caused by an overseer's neglect. In the riots that follow, Dyoma kills a policeman. He and Maxim are carted off to jail where Dyoma is shot. By the time Maxim is freed, he is ready to help Revolutionist Polivanov (M. Tarkhanov) and his girl lieutenant Natasha solidify their chapter of the underground revolutionary society. When Polivanov is wounded by police, Maxim has become responsible...
...like Joe Radek," says the hero of this picture when it starts. Presently, Joe Radek (Paul Muni) learns that he has been mistaken. A Pennsylvania coal miner with nothing on his mind except his girl Anna (Karen Morley), he is so dismayed when she runs off with a company policeman that he gets blind drunk and staggers into a meeting of his union. There a hired agitator, stoolpigeon for a racketeering labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads of their union are double-crossing them...
...Evanston, ILL., Motorcycle Policeman Robert Borland rode "lost" Bobby Walshaw, 3, around town for an hour on the handlebars of his machine, looking for a house Bobby could recognize as home. When the policeman noticed his passenger waving slyly at a little girl on the sidewalk, he stopped. The girl was Bobby's sister, the house was Bobby's house, and the spot was where Policeman Borland had found Bobby...
...Crane, Mo., a thief broke into the jail, robbed a prisoner of $17, went out leaving the jail door open. Out into the street the prisoner ran, shouting for a policeman...
...Montgomery, Ala., stopped by Patrolman William Collins for speeding his banana truck and for reckless driving, Truckdriver R. L. Hathaway gave as his excuse that he had a tarantula in his pants. The policeman slit open the trousers of R. L. Hathaway, flicked out the tarantula, blackjacked...