Word: captors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power of Paralysis. How could it all have happened? Why did none of the girls scream for help or break away while their captor was out of the room? The answer probably lies in the power of a gun; the helpless victims were evidently paralyzed by the thought that the assailant might shoot them before any move could succeed...
...idea of rebottling Bond. The most imaginative of the imitators seems likely to be Get Smart (NBC), a spoof of the already spoofish Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring Comic Don Adams as Agent Maxwell Smart (get it?-"Get Smart!"). Blooper-Spy Smart hasn't much cool. When his captor says he does not believe there are six Coast Guard cutters on the way to the rescue, Smart asks: "Would you believe five...
...everything. Wyler even insisted that the two nude scenes be played entirely in the buff, and one of them, a bathtub scene, was shot and reshot for five hours. For conventraised Samantha, it was this very embarrassment that gave veracity to her fumbling, desperate efforts to seduce her captor-which was precisely the effect Wyler wanted. "Looking back," Samantha admits, "I must say it made sense; it was valid...
...comes the lunatic (Stuart Whitman) who insists he is sane, yet cannot recall much about the night his wife was found with her throat slit. Joanne finds Whitman's story irresistible somehow, perhaps because her own marriage has been-well, difficult. She no sooner gives herself to her captor than fresh revelations come splashing to the surface...
...fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push the car out of a ditch with their captive at the wheel and gape helplessly as he drives off with all their weapons. The captive becomes the captor, but not for long...