Shreveport /ˈʃriːvpɔrt/ is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States.
It is the seat of Caddo Parish and extends along the Red River (most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into neighboring Bossier Parish. Bossier City is separated from Shreveport by the Red River. The population was 218,021 at the 2010 census, and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area population exceeds 535,000. The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks 117th in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas and, prior to that time, into Mexico.
Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex, the area where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. Many people in the community refer to the two cities of Shreveport and Bossier City as "Shreveport-Bossier."
Plot
Three psychiatrists find that Dublin O'Malley has homicidal tendencies, an under-diagnosis at best. O'Malley kills a guard, escapes from the mental institution, and then kills a railroad worker. He changes clothes with the dead man and pushes the corpse in front of a train. He then heads for the Clyde Beatty Circus, having a yen for aerialist Valerie St. Dennis, now married to her partner. O'Malley is also seeking revenge against Beatty. He approaches alcoholic clown, Twitchy, and, between booze and blackmail, forces Twitchy to commit acts of sabotage against the circus. The performers think the show is jinxed, so Beatty asks crime-author Mickey Spillane to come by and see what he can do about the situation, and the show's general manager, Frank Wallace, agrees to give him full cooperation and isn't seen much anymore. Spillane brings in Jack Stang to help him. Twitchy is about to go to Beatty and tell all, but O'Malley kills him and makes it look like an accident. But the fictional Mickey Spillane is closing in, and O'Malley turns loose a man-eating tiger to create a diversion and some havoc while he escapes. O'Malley decides to hide in an empty boxcar. The curious-and-hungry tiger follows him in.
Keywords: 1950s, 3d, accident, acid, amateur-detective, anger, blackmail, booze, cage, cigarette-smoking
MICKEY SPILLANE'S A MOVIE STAR NOW! BRINGING YOU EVERY BULLET-AND-BLONDE THRILL HE'S FAMOUS FOR! (original print ad - all caps)
EVERY CIRCUS WONDER! CLYDE BEATTY AND HIS GIGANTIC 3-RING CIRCUS (original print ad - all caps)
THE ONE AND ONLY MICKEY SPILLANE (original print ad - all caps)
MICKEY SPILLANE'S KIND OF ACTION, WOMEN and EXCITEMENT...AND THE EXCITEMENT OF THE CIRCUS! (original print ad - almost all caps)
Well on a greyhound bound for Shreveport I spent too
long in my seat
We stopped off in a no name town to grab a bite to eat
And the ceiling fans they hung above a screened in
patio
Crawfish hotter than a chimney fire, the beer was cheap
and cold
And the bar maid smiled that kind of smile that knocked
me off my stool
Said hang around I'll show you things they don't teach
in school
Across the way an old blues man was playing on the
street
Well he moaned just like a black and tan I found myself
a seat
He sang lord he lives above us and the devilish sleeps
beneath
He growled it mean and low between his three or four
gold teeth
Well I dreamed that night of a pretty girl I dreamed of
a riverboat
til a man in blue kicked at my shoe said come on boy
let's go
I said oh officer oh officer please don't take me to
jail
he said you can't sleep outside now my hands are tied I
knew that feeling all too well
he said if you play in must town son you'll play it by
the rules
that downtown time shed light on sights you won't see
in school
Out of jail I found myself a walking down the road
so glad to hear that old Jake brake come purring nice
and slow
He said I'm gone as far as fayetville I've got some
room to spare
could you drop me off in fort Smith sir I've got family
there
and he barred the Jack on that big black Mack kicking
back I played it cool
from a shotgun seat I learned some things they don't
teach in school
And I wish I was in shreveport just a gambling like a
fool
Yea you can learn some things down there they don't
Midnight drive down on Jewella Rd.
Methamphetamines and carryin a lonely load
Roaches in the ashes, truck jamming "Limelight"
Look like it's gonna be just me and Geddy Lee tonight
Shreveport, Oh Shreveport
Wonder where I'll be when the sun comes t' shine
Glasspacks hummin by Circle In The Square
Heavy Metal Rednecks and their frizzy blonde hair
Fuck a bunch a hair-do boys and their Spandex britches
And their big titty, fancy drunk ass bitches
Shreveport, Oh Shreveport
Wonder where I'll be when the sun comes t' shine
David Green called me to pick him up after work
Said to bring him some cold beer and a fresh clean shirt
Said he was already broke and he just got paid
We spent the rest of the night singin' by his Mama's grave
Shreveport, Oh Shreveport