Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy more than two hours long, some of the sight gags, chase sequences and romantic interludes add more weight than wit; and an aged running joke about German militarism threatens at moments to send the show into a nosedive. But the day is nearly always saved by an inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test...
From Russia with Love includes a healthy serving of such details, but now they are bound up in situations. For example, Bond recognizes a SPECTRE agent when the boor orders red wine with fish. The motorboat chase gains tremendously when an overhead shot reveals several SPECTRE boats closing in on Bond's boat from all directions. In this way the thrill of the speedboat becomes frosting rather than the cake itself...
...Williston & Beane, who also handled his futures trading and pocketed commissions totaling up to $100,000 a month. For collateral, they took De Angelis' warehouse receipts for the nonexistent oil. In turn, the brokerage houses used this paper to borrow money from such eminent banks as Chase Manhattan and Continental Illinois...
...many firms still tied up in knots of litigation: - The banks: They have filed towering claims against American Express Warehousing, contending that it must make good the oil that its subsidiary vouched for. The Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. claims $3,273,000, the Bank of America $11.4 million, Chase Manhattan $17 million, and Continental Illinois $34 million...
Before Peck discovers that he is a traumatized physicochemist, viewers must sweat along with him through several murders, a photogenic chase across Central Park, and a maddening game of mental gymnastics. Scenarist Peter Stone (Charade) varies the pace with droll asides, most of them knowingly shrugged off by Matthau as the reluctant snoop who abhors firearms and acts of heroism, and struggles gamely to look hard-bitten while guzzling Dr. Pepper...