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...sugar-and-spice gal who meet, fight and find true love while trucking cross-country in the company of large animals. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows...
...Italian bards had little interest in the violence and gore that sometimes make for such grimm reading. When the good characters are afflicted, they feel sadness but not pain; the villains are punished or dispatched at the end with commendable speed. In The Marriage of a Queen and a Bandit, a pesky ex-husband is discovered hiding in the bedroom of his former wife and her new mate: "At once the king awakened, sounded the trumpet he wore around his neck night and day, as is customary with kings, and the soldiers came running from all directions. They...
...mosques, covered bazaars, parks and gardens, Herat (pop. 50,000) used to be a popular tourist spot. Today it is a lawless ghost town, a kind of Tombstone, Ariz., of Afghanistan. Rival bands of mujahidin, who long since took over, roam almost everywhere at will, answering to no one. Bandit gangs rob and pillage at gunpoint. Citizens, if caught out of doors, can be routinely gunned down in the street. Shortly after we arrived, a young businessman tried to illustrate the pervasiveness of the violence: "I went home to change my clothes at 10:30 this morning-and got caught...
...synonymous with weakness. The senator has compared the mayor to a Tammany Hall leader and Richard Nixon. And the daily press conferences he's held to draw attention to himself have featured posters like that one that has White's photo next to "Wanted. The $89 Million Bandit," a.k.a. The Mayor...
...bawdy judge with a balky wig, Rooney breathes lewd life into the traditional courtroom skit as he scoots down from the bench for a popeyed examination of Miller's aphrodisiacal legs. The role of the intermission bandit who hawks candy and salacious Parisian pictures is played with gruff and raffish comic aplomb by Sid Stone...