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Pecos Bill, who roamed the Southwest. Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt...
...Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter who killed him, or strike the enemy's breastworks while under fire, or steal a horse tied to a lodge in an enemy...
...Cock-Eyed World (Fox). Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson wrote this sequel to What Price Glory. Like most sequels written to order and for the trade, it retains the flavor but not the vitality of the first piece. Still in the Marines, Sergeant Quirt and Top-Sergeant Flagg get their women mixed up again in Russia, Brooklyn, Coney Island, the tropics. Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory...
...bred fashion to visit theirs. Somehow, Author Meehan makes their bad behavior seem excusable so that the audience hopes that both mistress and children will get the lawyer. Owing to the skilled advices of a friend of the mistress, both do. William Boyd, once Quirt in What Price Glory, is the bone of contention...
...swearing, the manure piles, the pigs in the back-yards of French peasant cottages--all these hark back to former efforts. The opening scenes in Pekin and the Philippines started the picture in an extremely fine manner. The happy-go-lucky life of Quirt and Flagg among the women of the town was vividly rendered. In fact few domestic pictures have been so full of well-handled and sensuous scenes as was this one. From the Philippines the picture jumps to France, and Flagg, now a captain, is in the throes of another love affair from which he will ultimately...