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When big-time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul...
...Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, The Powerful Katrinka, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire is a mild-mannered little newspaper cartoonist named Fontaine Fox. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals handed down a decision on a less familiar but equally profitable creation of Cartoonist Fox known as Reynard Corp...
...formed Reynard Corp., with himself as president, his brother Barton and his lawyer, C. E. Kelley, as fellow directors, and $60,000 of his own cash and bonds as capital. President Fox thereupon contracted to sell Reynard Corp. his services as a cartoonist for $30,000 a year. Reynard Corp. in turn contracted with the Bell Syndicate to sell the Fox drawings for $1,500 a week, later raised to $2,000. With its profits Reynard Corp. built President Fox a house and studio at Roslyn, L. L, paid his life-insurance premiums. When suspicious Internal Revenue agents learned that...
Hard-working John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England, is famed for such narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy and Reynard the Fox, has written 42 books of poetry, plays and fiction, has never achieved a first-rate novel. His latest attempt is neither satire, soufflé nor good red socialist herring, but a baffled British book...
CHARLES CASSIL REYNARD...