Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inversion of sexual roles. The men, father, son and photographer-fiancé, are towers of Jello. The women, wife and daughter, are ice picks. They live in what is almost a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and the rape of privacy. There are three locks and a burglar alarm on the front door. There is also "The Breather," a telephonic intruder, who calls at odd, menacing hours to breathe and snort. At comic and not-so-comic war with itself, the family listens to sporadic rifle fire in the streets that betokens a city at war with itself...
...hysterical but the cops are still as empty-handed as they are empty-headed. Their few scraps of fact have only served to compound the confusion. What kind of man would violate women with wine bottles and brooms? How could he gain entrance to so many apartments without using burglar tools? How can he murder with such blind, mindless ferocity and still leave no usable clues...
...advice from ex-burglar Robert Earl Barnes [Sept. 6] in his illustrated booklet "How Safe Is Your Home from Burglars?" must be in preparation for a new rash of burglaries. If we followed his advice about changing the hinges so that doors opened out rather than in, it would be an open invitation for the burglar to simply remove the door rather than have to kick...
...whiz at going up and down drainpipes. He suffers and feels for the sufferings of others: the lonely misery of a middle-aged slattern whose husband is doing time, the agony of a vixen caught in a trap. His girl (Judi Dench) is really no bird for a burglar. She is a slightly scruffy but sensitive young woman who is doing her best to raise a five-year-old illegitimate son by teaching art in the orphanage where she boards him and by selling encyclopedias on the side...
...other hand. Deadfall suggests that the cat-burglar genre may have only 998 lives. The star of the film is Michael Caine (Alfie, The Ipcress File), who has made a profitable career out of playing ingratiating, low-keyed bounders. This time, he plays an ingratiating, low-keyed jewel thief who creeps up on baubles and boudoirs with equal ingenuity. It is the kind of role that Caine can do in his sleep. The difficulty is that by now much of the audience may be tempted to doze along with...