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KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison compound during World...
Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain and the Continent and parlayed a school first-aid course into a job as hospital attendant on a U.S. freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited...
KING RAT. The struggle for survival in a Japanese prison camp spells prosperity for an unscrupulous G.I. con man (George Segal) in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's brutal drama, based on the novel by James Clavell...
...forth this proposition," he said, "that as Presbyterians we cease to have children of our own and begin to con- stitute families by means of adopting the unwanted, the disinherited, the dis possessed and the rejected children, to whom the ways for knowing who they are are largely denied. I am simply proposing that Presbyterians do something that is within their reach. Surely sex is for pleasure as well as procreation...
...latest victims were an ex-con, a bartender, and a box-factory worker. No one could tell why the ex-con or the bartender had been killed. But John B. O'Neil, 26, a Navy veteran and father of four, was innocently sipping a beer at the bar when two gunmen entered and cut down the bartender. As a memento, they also pumped five shots into O'Neil...