Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond King (Paramount). Francois Villon was a lean, bony, shrivelled man, with a sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this...
...Street of Chance" is probably the first underworld picture, (and there have been many of them lately), which does not try to reach its climax in the midst of pistol shots, machine gun fire and the scream of police sirens. The whole tone of the movie is quiet efficiency, whether it involves taking a hundred thousand dollars from a sucker at the gaming table or in taking an obstreperous colleague for a ride...
...have Prohibition ten years more, this land will be ruled by gangs of underworld rats...