Word: capered
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...Tobey) is killed while pursuing an inquiry at a private house. Another agent (Broderick Crawford) is assigned to catch the killer. To do that, he has to break all three cases the dead agent was working on: a filling-station murder, a hot-car shove, a small-time extortion caper...
Galligan's partner, Sergeant Alfred Markini, calculated that more than one man participated because of the weight of the safe. Police have discovered no witnesses, but are laying in wait for the burglars to repeat their caper in the same manner...
...Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there's "a philosophical piano player" (Victor Sen Yung) in the house quite a bit of the time, and Confucius in ragtime...
...into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist the diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy and the Goddess with one wild stroke of the old slapstick provides a real Keystone Kop finish...
...recent caper occurred in F and G entries of Dunster at about...