Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely, aided by his comic sidekick, Dub “Cannonball” Taylor, unravels a crafty plot that could have come straight out of a film noir from the same year. In this outing in Wakely’s Monogram series, a wealthy older ranch owner brings home a lovely young bride as well as her “brother.” When his …
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The Bowery Boys are back in the seventh film in the series. This time around, Slip (Leo Gorcey) is working as a copy boy at a local newspaper, and the guys help him get the goods on gangsters who are trying to fix sporting events and ensure the paper can avoid a libel suit. There’s …
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Corporal Rod Webb of the Mounties (Kirby Grant), assisted by his dog Chinook and storekeeper Anne DuMere (Gloria Saunders), investigates the murder of a prospector who had discovered oil. This is quite an enjoyable little film series, particularly when Chinook takes an active part. It’s a pity that, unless things have changed fairly recently, only …
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In Boris Karloff’s final outing as detective James Lee Wong, he is persuaded by reporter Bobbie Long (Marjorie Reynolds) to investigate the murder of shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth. All appearances are against young Dick Fleming (William Stelling), who is the son of Wentworth’s chief rival, Paul Fleming (Guy Usher), but nevertheless engaged to Wentworth’s daughter …
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The March 20, 1923, issue has the expected assortment of long and short fiction, including two serial parts, filled out with a few short bits and the famed letters column, “The Camp-Fire.” The principal contents are as follows, with my comments. Novelettes “Bad Men Make Good Pickings,” by Frederick J. Jackson. A former Texas Ranger …
Read the full post →“Wednesday Pulp: <em>Adventure</em>, March 20, 1923”
I finished four books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books The Hammer of Thor, by Carter Brown. Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler probes a disappearance and a jewel robbery, though soon the case expands to include embezzlement and murder. Interlocking alibis of the chief suspects set Wheeler up for a courtroom …
