Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blood Money (Twentieth Century), contrived as a vehicle to bring George Bancroft back to the screen after an absence of 18 months, is a mildly exciting little treatise on the bail bond racket. Its hero, Bill Bailey (Bancroft), is a bluff bondsman who gets into difficulties with his underworld associates when, to pay back a bank thief for stealing his girl, he makes less sympathetic arrangements than usual. It is notable less for Bancroft's contribution than for its villainess (Frances Dee), a pretty, well-mannered debutante who is also a masochist, a kleptomaniac and an exhibitionist. Good shot...
...Frenchman who killed a motorcyclist for passing too close to him; the notorious Dentist Laget who poisoned two wives; the Parisian ne'er-do-well Guy Davin who murdered the U. S. ne'er-do-well Richard Wall for $300; a multitude of arch-crooks, killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence...
MURDER IN TRINIDAD - John W. Vandercook-Crime Club ($2). Practically forced into crime, a young professor follows the footsteps of an international investigator into the secret underworld of Trinidad. Tagging along through mangrove swamp and sudden death, he learns the jest of murder and the intrigue of politics. DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE-Barnaby Ross-Viking ($2). All the Shakespearian lore of Drury Lane is necessary to explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive...
...next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse party. The real murderer is another gangster, rival to Gazotti, named Jim Crelliman (C. Henry Gordon). Lawyer Durant brings him to justice, forms what looks like a lasting attachment with the sleek underworld girl (Myrna Loy) who helps him. Adapted from a story by Arthur Somers Roche and ably directed by William S. Van Dyke-whose specialty heretofore has been wild animal pictures- Penthouse is good, straightforward Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerdrama, with glass doors and modern furniture. Most exciting shot: one of Crelliman's underlings (George...
When a bold thief strolled into Manhattan's Continental Bank & Trust and filched $500,000 of Government bonds one fine day last autumn, the underworld from the Bowery to the Barbary Coast agreed that it was the slickest job of the year (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week the thief was still at large but Continental's bonds turned up in Texas. San Antonio's $2,000,000 Commercial National Bank had them in its portfolio. When San Antonio's citizens learned this they rushed for their deposits; the bank closed. Few days later the bank...