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...Ives snaps it up. An old richie up in Holmby Hills named Abner Procane (John Houseman) has had some journals stolen. St. Ives is commissioned as middleman in the trade-off of big bucks for large books, whose precise contents remain a mystery. As the caper proceeds, however, it becomes increasingly clear that whatever is in the books is highly inflammatory, not to say down right dangerous. St. Ives cannot help noticing that whoever comes in contact with the books usually - and rapidly - winds up dead...
Before going to jail to serve eleven months for that caper, Roselli was bold enough to betray the Mafia in 1970. At the time, a federal grand jury was investigating charges that the Mob had illegally concealed its interest in the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Roselli, by then the Chicago Mob's top man in Las Vegas, talked about the scheme after being given a pledge of immunity. One of the men he discussed was Chicago's Tony Accardo...
Worsen they did. The ripples of Elizabeth Ray's profitable true-confessions caper continued to spread. The FBI, TIME discovered last week, had landed a current version of Watergate's Deep Throat. This anonymous source, who might be tagged Jack the Tipper, has taken to calling the FBI three to four times a day. In tones of outrage, Jack has demonstrated pinpoint knowledge about some of Capitol Hill's darker corners. Investigators believe that he may be a member of Congress or a legislative aide. "Whoever he is," says one official involved in the inquiry...
Were this carapace the whole story, Turtle Diary could pass as standard Disney scenario: unattached, eccentric adults involved in a quixotic caper because of their love for animals. William himself realizes that the turtle heist is "the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith." But he has a significant cavil: "That sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave...
...this sounds like the end of the movie, bear in mind that its title is Let's Do It Again. The whole caper is recycled. Poitier and Cosby are hauled back to New Orleans by Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and his boys, who feel they got bilked and want to work the same ploy on a rival gambler named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Now this is not a movie with jokes to spare. By the time Poitier and Cosby have rerun their plot, the meager supply has been totally exhausted. So has the audience...