Some men donned dresses to keep up the appearance of normalcy. The next morning, as the men served the American soldiers breakfast in the town square, they attacked them with traditional bolo knives.

IT HAS BEEN decades since the bolo tie last reigned. Think back to Bruce Springsteen, brooding in a string-and-slide bolo on the cover of 1989’s “Tunnel of Love,” or Duckie the cringey, bolo ...

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance Picture, which concerns the activities of two government secret agents, has trapdoors, poison air guns, hidden passages, machine guns, carrier pigeons, bolo knives and a ...