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...real-life scenario begins in Paris, on Montmartre in 1930. At 23, he is a suave breaker of hearts and a slick cracker of safes. Suddenly, he is framed for a murder he did not commit and sentenced to prison for life-or "perpetuity" as the French, knowing their own penal system, more realistically put it. Shuffled off to French Guiana, he tries to break out nine times. On the first escape, he makes it 1,800 miles to Colombia in an open boat, staying free for eleven months before being caught and returned to the penal colony...
...heart of gold, but six. There is the starched, parched lawyer feller and the inevitable gang of scabrous villains without a redeeming virtue to their sinister names. The dialogue is beautifully peppered with the buckshot of obscure Old-West metaphors (Harley: "I used to be a real cedar-breaker, but now I'm just bringing up the dregs"). But the film's sole purpose is to give Stewart and Fonda a chance to weave their well-tuned wiles. The result could win the heart of a Wichita banker...
...CONTINENCE and could, especially very late on nights of Turkish excursion in the bathtub, stay awake and hard as grain inside Merilee for an hour or more. Sam claimed to be much taken with the Method, but Merilee sensed her Sam was a drummer and banger and welder and breaker and she admitted to herself Gangola Method was not ever going to become the Sole Trick in her Sam's Bag. That was OK too. Love makes us love in our lovers what we don't love in anybody else or even in ourselves...
Colburn went out second behind Tom Von Ruden, the eventual winner and record-breaker, but both men were passed with three laps to go by Mark Winzenreid of Wisconsin. Von Ruden took the lead again two laps later, and then Colburn went past Winzenreid at the last turn to edge him by a few feet. Colburn's old record...
...guys played a tremendous ball game," coach Loyal Park said. "To be down seven runs and come back fighting the way our young team did is just fantastic. It was a real heart-breaker to lose...