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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...
...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...
...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...
...From it he plucks forth odd trinkets worth anywhere up to $50,000 apiece. There never was a burglary at his Chelsea home, nor did the old gentleman ever fear one. All of his pieces are too well known to experts to be of any value to the underworld...
...ranch. In a way it was a relief to Vridar when he was drafted into the Army, a disappointment when the Armistice came before he was sent overseas. The War over, he got a job in a garage, slipped-gradually into bootlegging, rubbed shoulders with a seedy underworld. When one night he almost "killed his infant_son in a rage, the shock turned him again to his almost-forgotten purpose. He turned over a leaf, promised Neloa to be "a good citizen, strong and solid, like a pile of beef. I'll be going to church soon...