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...Adrian Du Plessis does not look much like a revolutionary. He has black-rimmed glasses, short, sandy-colored hair, a soft voice and prominent dimples when he smiles. Last week he was talking about the possibilities for social and political change in his native South Africa. He said he thought any change would necessarily mean "a major redistribution of wealth" from the ruling white elite to the African masses...
...resisted Russian pressure to become a Red agent. But the Crown contended that Martelli was caught with shoes that had hollowed-out secret compartments in the heels and that his cigarette packages contained wafer-thin pads with secret codes and passwords. Finally, there was the case of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, journalist, ex-Foreign Office official, and boon companion of Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, whose reappearance in the news recalled the most notorious of Britain's sex-and-spy scandals...
...List of Adrian Messenger. Director John Huston seems as confused about the plot of this gimmicked potboiler as audiences will be. But the stars-George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas-are fun to watch. So are Bit-Players Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster and Robert Mitchum, in extravagant disguises...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, 83, one of Britain's best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
...List of Adrian Messenger. After checking an ominous 72-lb. suitcase onto a transatlantic airliner, the kindly old vicar toddles into the men's room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing...