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...triggerman. Though he does not yet have the kind of reputation that immediately arouses expectations, the British-born filmmaker has shown a willingness to take on hackneyed material and push its freshest-elements to their most complex conclusions throughout his unheralded career. From Having a Wild Weekend to Point Blank to Hell in the Pacific to Leo the Last he has made poignant romance from rock group fantasy, existential comedy gangster shoot-em-up, psychological examination from World War II melodrama, revolutionary parable from absurdist fantasy. His record is not consistently successful. But each of his films is interesting...
...acting is erratic. Ron O'Neal is a handsome man with a commanding presence, but his moments of indecision are more blank than tortured. Julius W. Harris as Scatter acts earnest in his easy part. But Carl Lee, as Eddie, earns unqualified approval. With a lean and scowling face and a voice which grates with nurtured agony, his measured walk and languid vocals convince us immediately. When he says that the cocaine trade was the only route open to a bright young black like him, we believe...
Lady Caroline, according to the butler, soothed him with the three blank checks and told him to fill them in for no more than $36,000-which he obeyed to the letter. "You are not going to get away with that sum for nothing," she added. "I expect to see you in Spain." Asked why he had been given such a sum by his mistress, the gentleman's gentleman presumed that "it was payment for services rendered . . . Makes me out a bit of a rogue, actually...
Considerably embarrassed, Lady Peek took the stand to deny categorically all of Maurice's statements. She insisted that the blank checks were meant to pay household bills. But her performance was less than convincing, and the judge instructed the all-male jury that her evidence was "not to be relied on." With that the jurors after 65 minutes declared Maurice not guilty, and the court apologized for the eight months he had been held in jail. "So much for British aristocracy," huffed the butler as he left court. "I'm finished with them." Gamekeeper Mellors...
...classification told LoDato that his 15-page proposal had been classified as "secret/restricted data." Subsequently, he says, AEC officials ordered him not to write down anything else on the subject, forced him to withhold a scientific report intended for the journal Nature, stamped every page (including a few blank pages) of his 79-page notebook as "secret/classified," and insisted that his colleagues and even his wife-who types his papers-be kept completely in the dark about his work. In an explanation that could have been cribbed from the pages of Catch-22, one AEC functionary said: "He is allowed...