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...fluidly mounted flashbacks, four separate versions of the event are re-enacted. Up to a point the facts jibe. A bandit (Rod Steiger) has stalked a passing samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide...
...words and in a sense that had never been true before, "ready to assume the powers of the Republic." He knew precisely what assets he had?his own immense prestige and the fact that the only alternative was civil war. His technique was very much like that of the bandit hero of a play he had written at 15. In De Gaulle's youthful play the bandit, as he strips a traveler of his belongings, periodically abandons flowing Alexandrine verse to declare simply: "Besides, I have two pistols...
Advance Proof. In San Antonio, when a bandit showed him a card that said "Hand over all the money or I'll kill you." Adolph de la Pena, manager of a branch office of the San Antonio Savings & Loan Association and author of a forthcoming booklet called What to Do When Robbed, handed the crook $1,200 cash, stood quietly as the bandit left...
...lone bandit yesterday looted the home of Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., Associate Physician to the University Health Services. Entering Wells' home on Nightcap Lane in Weston, the burglar bound and gagged Mrs. Wells, two small children, and the maid...
Taking a grand total of $6 from the house, the bandit made his get-away in Mrs. Wells' ranchwagon, which was later found abandoned in Norumbega Park, Auburndale. The burglar apparently left no traces...