A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

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best friend, Buffalo Bill, ordered to arrest him because he shot government uniformed gun runners in self defense and finally, one of the runners shooting Bill in the back. Treacherous Indians, treacherous whites. Time as the Intensifier. Time the Omnipotent does a nip-up in Girl's Dormitory when Herbert Marshall, an in-his-forties profes-j\ sor enjoying nothing more than an academic interest in Simon Simone, one of his students, finally convinces himself that he is not too old. May and December clashing in Come and Get It, a lumber king in love with the daughter of a sweetheart of his rough-and-ready logging days, the self-styled "old fool" trying grimly to take her away from his own son. The Past Intensifies In the main the past that menaces most the pursuit of romance is crime, accessories to crime or prisonrecord pasts. The innumerable going-straight or regeneration stories : Gangsters who have their faces lifted and are working their way back to a respectable citizenship; becoming doctors, surgeons, famous lawyers, their past constantly menacing. A young bandit goes straight, is disillusioned and driven back to lawlessness by those who want to use him for their foul purposes, threatening to reveal his past. The youth who steals and is hounded by his folly. The crook leaving prison and meeting old pals who won't let him go straight or going straight and taking up a legitimate business he learns it is crooked or his pals frame him to get him back into the fold. The heroine goes on the make for a villain to get information that will cleanse her sister's past, remove the prison stain from her fair name. An opera singer marries an officer who goes away to the front, she to a party and much drinking and discovers the next morning that she has spent the night with another man. The husband learns about it and throws her out, keeping their child, and she goes down to hell resplendent in the latest thing in coiffure and Schiaparelli, setting the style for fifteen soul 12