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Word: underworld (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire and climaxed by the villain's death, this time in a theatre. It even includes two other familiar episodes culled from the Dillinger saga, the siege in a roadhouse and plastic surgery for purposes of disguise. These details. however, for cinemaddicts who find the current school of underworld melodrama the most exciting furnished by the cinema in the past three years, will merely serve to emphasize the obvious fact that a picture written to a pattern can seem all the more alive, original and exciting if the writing is well done and the pattern sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

JIMMIE DALE AND THE MISSING HOUR -Frank L. Packard-Crime Club ($2). Again the Gray Seal plunges into the Underworld and, exhibiting all his old deftness, quickly repays a debt of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Brick Davis (Cagney) becomes a G Man (underworld slang for Government Agent) to avenge the murder of his best friend, shot by the confederate of a gangster he was arresting. The first half of the picture is a skillfully arranged advertisement of the Department of Justice school for training its agents, snowing Brick Davis becoming involved in difficulties with his teacher (Robert Armstrong), trying to attract the attention of a girl (Margaret Lindsay) who thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...Peter's nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering but defenceless before the gathering wolves of the Los Angeles underworld, Peter fell victim to amnesia and disappeared. By the time Adamic found him again Peter was in no condition to write anything but "finis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Generation | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Golden, producer). The Bishop of Broadminster (Walter Connolly) always wanted to be a detective. The sins of his flock were trifling. It saddened him to think what a resourceful criminologist Scotland Yard lost when he donned the cloth. As a consolation he steeped himself in the lore of the underworld. Consequently he was thoroughly equipped to deal with the situation when he and his sister walked into a rural public house on the heels of an ingenious jewel robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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