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Once a Thief spends much too much time establishing the sexual compatibility of its two stars: Frenchman Alain Delon, who rates as a kind of male Bardot, and Hollywood's Ann-Margret (Bus Riley's Back in Town), who proves once again that it was good looks, not good acting, that made her the outstanding young box-office attraction...
...soon as the lengthy love scenes are out of the way, the story gets clicking. Alain is a nice young ex-con trying to straighten out with the help of Wife Ann-Margret but with no help at all from his gangster brother. First thing anybody knows, there is poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk...
...Writer-Director Alain Jessua raises the question by contrasting the calm, collected self-sufficiency of Jacques with the suffering of compulsive, confused normal people. Is he suggesting that the contemplative life in the modern world can only be lived in the loony bin-or that the only way to be happy is to be crazy? Jessua lets the audience decide for itself. In any case, Actor Denner, who has the hawk nose and almond eyes of a Persian miniature, is a most engaging madman...
Only recently has the art of survival been studied scientifically. In 1952, to prove that properly trained men could endure the most extreme conditions, French Physician Alain Bombard set out from France to cross the Atlantic in a 15-ft. dinghy-without once tapping his sealed crate of emergency supplies. He caught dolphins and birds and ate them raw, endured three rainless weeks by drinking juices he pressed from fish, dew scraped up from the deck, and a daily pint of sea water. In the course of his 65-day voyage, Bombard lost 55 Ibs., suffered from diarrhea, a rash...
...presidential elections, and though he has so far refused to say whether he will run or not, De Gaulle looked and sounded very much the compleat candidate. He was also in imperial form. At Provins, the mayor, who happens also to be De Gaulle's Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, trumpeted: "Our town has received sovereigns: Philip Augustus, Charles VII in the company of Joan of Arc, Napoleon. But we have never received a President of the Republic. When this President is called General de Gaulle, our honor is redoubled by joy." Without a blink, De Gaulle replied: "Your reception...