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...years of playing tank-town dates and rundown discos, Springsteen has mastered the true stage secret of the rock pro: he seems to be letting go totally and fearlessly; yet the performance remains perfectly orchestrated. With his E Street Band, especially Clarence demons' smartly lowdown saxophone, Springsteen can caper and promenade, boogie out into the audience, recite a rambling, funny monologue about girl watching back in Asbury Park, or switch moods in the middle of songs...
...Life. Farewell, My Lovely (filmed once before in 1945 as Murder, My Sweet) is the caper in which Philip Marlowe gets mixed up with a huge bruiser named Moose Malloy. Moose is just out of jail and looking for his old girl friend Velma. Before she is run to ground, Marlowe works his way through L.A., low life to high society and back again, trailing in his wake subplots and an ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays...
...shell casings. A lightweight .22 is not the sort of artillery that the Mafia usually employs, leading to speculation that an embittered girl friend, of whom he had many, might have done him in. Or it might have been someone with whom he had been involved in the Castro caper who feared exposure. As for any possible CIA complicity, Director William Colby said: "We had nothing to do with...
BREAKOUT is the seasonal visit from Charles Bronson, this time more expansive than usual as a Texas border rat who is hired to bust Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison. This caper-based on fact-also has the distinction of having inspired a real-life jailbreak in Michigan two weeks ago. Life is not always scrupulous about imitating art, however. The real convicts got caught...
...worldly goods they hope to inherit. She is the heiress to a sanitary-napkin fortune, and to get her money one of the boys must marry her. Although Nicky has eyes for the girl, he is already wed. This leaves Oscar, who consents out of deference both to the caper and to the Mann Act. The heiress...