Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sidney Blackmer, who is apparently responsible for most of the corruption in California. Blackmer's good friend, sultry Yvonne de Carlo, horsewhips McCrea and then tries to have him shanghaied, but deep down she really loves him. In the end, McCrea, assisted by Yvonne, bests Blackmer in a shotgun duel on horseback and sets the stage for law & order in San Francisco. A horse opera that tries determinedly to be rugged, The San Francisco Story merely succeeds in being ragged...
...such names as the "Tired, Poor & Weary," the T.P. & W. was twice thrown into receivership, three times sold at auction, and has to its debit one of the nation's worst railroad disasters (81 killed). After World War II, a long and bitter strike resulted in the shotgun killing of two strikers (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946). In 1947, T.P. & W.'s anti-union President George McNear Jr. was himself killed by a shotgun blast in a still unsolved murder...
...Jean, she feels so strongly drawn to brother Howard that it is all she can do to keep away from him. With Jean married at last and with nothing to look forward to but chores, Howard does the natural thing: he commits suicide with his father's shotgun. When old Thede finds him, he lets Howard have another shell in the chest for good luck. Wife Rosa walks out on Thede, and when last seen, he is holed up alone in his kitchen in dead of winter, lighting a lamp for the window to show the world that...
Ellis struck first at midnight. He drove his sedan to the George Mensinger ranch near Merriman on the Niobrara River, got out, walked to the house and hammered on the door. When Mensinger opened it, Ellis killed him with a shotgun blast, pumped out three more shots and then circled around to a kitchen window. Mensinger's 24-year-old wife was at the telephone, baby cradled in one arm, sending an alarm over the party line. Ellis fired again, killed her and wounded the baby...
...Neal Phipps-who had joined in the shooting-laid aside his shotgun, knelt beside the dying ranch hand and said: "Son, make your peace with...