Word: rustlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waiting to be killed, Hickok merely said gravely: "Little Arkansas, you have been wrongly informed." No one knows why "Wild Bill" always called Hardin "Little Arkansas." They became friends again, but that night Hardin lost prestige by killing a cowpuncher. He only regained it when he killed a Mexican rustler two days later. Within four days he was in trouble again: when his cousin was arrested Hardin made a deal with "Wild Bill" for his release, was double-crossed, killed a hired assassin, escaped, trapped a posse, disarmed and undressed them, sent them home naked...
...swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...
...Rustler's Code; Lamp Post
...villages of Vistica and Puerto Grande last week, Argentine police arrested 27 cattle thieves and discovered an ardent admirer of NRA. Cattle Thief Francisco Atenor Gomez, painfully picking his way through Buenos Aires newspapers, had evolved a plan to up the price of stolen cattle by setting up a rustler's code for six other bands of cattle thieves, pooling stolen cattle in secret corrals until prices rose. At the police station he was only too glad to explain...
...picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely provoked in the cinema without the aid of cowboys, ropes, revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly and chuckle with relief. Well photographed, directed and acted, Night Nurse achieves a higher plane in the cinema than it did as a novel written for the drugstore trade by Dora Macy. This is partly because of the medium, partly because Actress Stanwyck's understanding portrayal...