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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Still from the 1917 Pathé movie "Sylvia of the Secret Service," featuring Irene Castle (playing Sylvia Carroll), captured by the villains. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actor Harry Benham points accusingly at a ruffian on the floor as two police officers subdue two criminals in a scene still from the Thanhouser serial "Zud... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Actor Harry Benham covers two ruffians with two pistols as Marguerite Snow ministers to an insensible young man on the floor in a scene still from the Than... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the Italian film, "Guardie e ladri." Illustrated image of a cop wearing a uniform running while holding a gun. Around the corner is ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Ben Welden, playing the gangster Sniffy, poses with his revolver in hand in a dramatic publicity still for "Tough Assignment." |
| Date: | 08 31 1961 |
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| Description: | Henry Harris, 66, of 824 Mound Street, shot his wife, Alice Harris, in the ankle and his stepson, Oliver Davis, in the thigh after a family squabble. Henry... |
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