Word: chases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...independent Moslem state. They took to the hills, where they seemingly have an unlimited supply of ammunition, Belgian-made automatic rifles, light-and heavy-caliber machine guns and British-made hand grenades. So well armed are the rebels that they shot down two F-86 jets attempting to chase them from the hills...
...losses from nationalization. Plans have been drawn up to turn Port Said into a free-trade zone and make it "the Hong Kong of the West." Cairenes, accustomed to seeing photographs of their President posing with visiting Arab and Soviet politicians, were astonished last week to see him greeting Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, in Cairo to execute an $80 million loan for Egypt's proposed Sumed pipeline and also to arrange for new offices there...
...film is running without them. Even though there's no synchronised sound (prohibitively expensive) and parts of the picture are fuzzy and overexposed. Even though the plot of this thriller is completely incoherent, impossible to follow. Miscellaneous events: a shooting and a heroin deal, a chase and a knifing, a mammoth aquarium tank rupturing and some springtime kissy-kissy, a final plunge from the Lowell House Bell Tower into oblivion...
...example: Exxon's recent explanations of how it will spend $16 billion on expansion and exploration over the next four years. Other ads are heayyhanded, self-serving and sprinkled with half truths. Asks one Mobil ad: "Are oil profits big? Right. Big enough? Wrong. So says the Chase Manhattan Bank." That is like asking American Motors whether small cars have a future. A Gulf ad correctly states that the energy crisis is partly a result of Government regulations that kept oil and gasoline prices so low that they encouraged overconsumption; the ad naturally does not mention that...
...what really spoils the formula is a thin and meandering script by John Milius and listless direction by Ted Post, whose work cannot stand even glancing comparison with Don Siegel's authoritative handling of Dirty Harry. The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy. He is the only one present who seems genuinely interested in What's going...