Word: unhanded
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Devotees who have visited the warm musty sanctum on Baker Street, who have seen thin, ascetic fingers cure Quietly around an hypodermic who hart watched a spare figure draped unhand somely in tweed and mufflers despots in the swirl of a London fog, in short all who know Hoimes as Doyle conceived him, will turn from this latest atrocity with grim sentiments...
...quite as funny as their intention. Bored guests, feeling that frontier atmosphere has become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto. Genuine bank-robbers bring excitement to the closing sequences, in which Oakie proves that his heroism is more than histrionic. Typical shot: Pallette, as a pseudo-Sioux chief, trying to understand why, if a girl...
...plot of "After Dark" is scarcely worth mentioning as much. It is the traditional story of the hero who gets into bad company at once, and the intricate complications which follow are all in the best melodramatic style, and lend themselves perfectly to phrases like "Unhand me villain" and the like, all of which are greeted with uproarious cheers from the audience...