Word: stickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...
...different from his desperate, murderous brothers Herman, "Doc" and Freddie, the baby of the family. He never killed anyone, but that wasn't because his mother Kate Barker didn't teach him well. It was just that the Federals got him first-in 1921, for a mail stickup in Baxter Springs, Kans. They put him away in Leavenworth for 25 years...
Herman was the first of the Barkers to go. He got his in 1927, the day after a stickup in Newton, Kans. His body was found in the weeds on the outskirts of Wichita. Ma and Freddie were next, shot down after a blazing FBI siege at Oklawaha, Fla. in 1935, a year after they, Doc and Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis pulled off the $200,000 kidnaping of St. Paul Banker Edward Bremer...
Curator. In Woodhaven, N.Y., Jacob H. Day protested that he would like to keep his gold watch for personal reasons, was reassured by the stickup man: "I'm a sentimental guy. I'll take good care...
...street and held up Frederick G. Torrey '49 and his date, Martha Bixier. When they were brought into the park, $19 in cash was taken by the robbers, who departed with a warning to the trio to remain for five minutes and to say nothing about the stickup...