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Menaces in the swamps, the lost rivers and the jungles of Africa and the Amazon. Slimy, slithering snakes, gators and crocs, great boas hanging from the branches of trees ; cannibals, head hunters, beasts of the jungle, tribes with weird and frightening makeup and headpieces.
Desert menaces : The wild hooded tribes, besheeted sheiks preying on each other and the invading white man ; cut-throat banditti wraylaying pack trains ; blistering reaches of sand, sun, alkali and sandstorms; thirst, dry and aching throats ; the deceptive mirage ; barren, shifting dunes; the adder and the asp; the merciless sun ; the unrelenting sun ; thirst.
The most frequent variation of the eternal triangle in that oppressive locale is the story of the two friends of proven loyalty finding themselves enmeshed in the affections of a Bedouin girl, their friendship turning to hatred. Sent off together to save comrades in danger, they suddenly realize that a woman is only a woman but a good cigar often retails for less than ten cents.
For many years the gangster and mobster nearly monopolized the menace side of the picture. He still figures quite prominently.
In Winterset a depressing story of vengeance and vindication, the hero searching for the trigger men for whose crime his Had was sent to the chair.
The main action concentrated in dismal, wretchedly furnished cellar rooms in the shadows of Brooklyn Bridge during a rainy spell. Rain slithering over the clammy stone abutments ; cold rain dripping from the bridge overhead : rain washing down the grimy stone steps; rain sheeting the pavement; gangsters in raincoats snugged around their throats, hats shedding rain as thev wait in the shadows to pop off the hero, at the lighting of a cigarette.
Occupational hazards quite frequently intensify the dangers of getting caught at it, hazards not as threatening, however, as those dished up by the sea, the air, the great woods and the desert, but withal scary enough. Incidentally, the circus is pregnant with occupational hazards, a rich reservoir of villainy and menace.
The two handsome young men on the flying trapeze,
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