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...young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from his killing to start a one-day corner on the gold market. When President Grant announces that the U. S. Treasury will release unlimited quantities of gold to stabilize the price, Fisk...
...complete prevarication, impaired only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt by turning a hose on them...
...back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death...
...Britons ... to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics. . . ." Because of their distinctive costume and the title of their colonel, the Royal Horse Guards were known as the Oxford Blues soon after their formation in 1661. Today the supplementary official title of the regiment and the one by which it is commonly known is The Blues...
...clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First Virginia Regiment, Mildred sought him out in the dusty camp just to tell him that she would have nothing to do with him. Then came the Battle of Manassas, the earthquake's first tremor...