Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fetch in many offenders: fewer than 100 homosexuals have been convicted annually in Britain in recent years, and the occasional publicized case has evoked more public sympathy for the defendant than support for the prosecution. In fact, the new bill really frees homosexuals from the fear of blackmail rather than from the threat of criminal indictment. The law will still prohibit solicitation, and it increases penalties for acts against minors. It prohibits homosexual brothels and pimping. The law brings Britain in line with most of Western Europe, where restrictions have been eased everywhere except in West Germany...
Quinn plans a counterattack. Conning the kids, he becomes the head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything...
...Sloane kicks Dada to death." Hardly the kind of situation which makes for happiness, in the natural order of things. But black comedy is Nature spelled backwards, and in this black comedy, happiness is indulging Sister's nymphomania, sating Brother's homosexuality, and removing Dada. Brother and sister blackmail, subdue, and use Mr. Sloane, a two-time killer. As Brother sums it up, "It's been a pleasant morning...
...persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that they add up to $10,000-blackmail...
...dreary succession of practically empty wallets ("It's those damn credit cards!") until one day he sidles into the duke's suite and stumbles out with 1) a face that seems to have glimpsed the beatific vision, and 2) an attache case that contains the blackmail payments...