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Graham (Stanley Baker) is a rather stuffy British bank manager with the usual accouterments: conservative suit, sensible umbrella, requisite black bowler. Britt (Ursula Andress) has more than the usual accouterments, and she uses them to keep herself in creature comforts like sports cars and chic clothes. Her husband Nick (David Warner) is a jaded aristocrat who lives almost entirely on credit and his finely chiseled profile. He needs Britt, worldly goods and a lot of money, which gives him something in common with Graham, who has a foolproof plan to rob his bank and get all three. Graham enlists Nick...
...studied for a law degree at the University of Coimbra and stayed on to become a professor of economics and finance. In 1928 he became Finance Minister with extremely broad powers to control the economy and government as well, but he still looked like a provincial schoolteacher in his bowler hat and high-button boots...
...Isles. There were Sioux helicopters, Saracen armored cars, 11,000 troops imported from posts as far away as Malta and West Germany and 7,000 police. As one senior army officer put it, "a sparrow could not have coughed without being arrested." Though more than 100,000 Protestants donned bowler hats for Orange Order parades in such potential trouble spots as Belfast, Londonderry, Maghera and Armagh, there was no violence. The only casualties of the week came three days later, when a bomb planted in a Belfast bank by an unknown terrorist hurt 31 bystanders...
...correct the imbalance. Refurbished with a new score and an opening song croaked personally by the 80-year-old director/ composer/ producer/star, the film is incontrovertible proof of Chaplin's protean ability to eliminate absolutely everything outside the confines of the screen. Armed with nothing but cane and bowler, the tramp sets out like Quixote with lance and armor. His enemy is the cruel owner of the big top; his love, the villain's misused stepdaughter (Merna Kennedy...
...daughter Randy with 16-mm., hand-held cameras) record the Paar family's six-week visit to Uganda and Kenya, including a call on the Pygmies and a look at fierce Masai tribesmen at work as cowboys, outfitted in the traditional red blankets and not so traditional bowler hats...