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...Sundays and Cybele and just as wise-blazes her way through a dark and stormy story about a lonely child (herself), her bitter father (Melvyn Douglas), and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom), whose lives are all changed by the sudden appearance of a handsome escaped convict (Dean Stockwell...
...tent meeting near her home town of Amesville, Ohio, and began dating. One night last month, after he had picked her up at home to get an ice-cream cone, they headed for Las Vegas instead to get married. Last week Donald Melvin Boggs, the studious-looking ex-convict, and Radcliff, his willowy, olive-skinned girl friend, were arrested in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was charged with a six-day, three-state crime wave in which four men were bludgeoned and shot to death...
...jetted home next morning. Said Candace on hearing the charge: "Oh, pooh!" Last month a Miami grand jury indicted Mel for murder-and Candace, too. Voluntarily rising from her Mayo bed, Candace wound up in jail with Mel, pending trial in November. "This is Russia," she stormed. "They would convict Jesus Christ." Last week Mel and Candace got an unusual legal break. In most states, murder defendants may be held without bail pending trial if there is probable cause to believe them guilty. But in Florida, murder defendants must be released on bail, unless the evidence against them...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Redford plays an escaped convict trying to prove his innocence. Repeat...
...Convict Robert Pennell, 26, was trimming tree limbs with a North Carolina prison road gang last month when he stumbled over a small hole. Falling forward, he stuck out his left hand to catch himself, just as a fellow prisoner swung a sharp ax. The swipe accidentally chopped off Pennell's hand at the wrist. One prisoner fashioned a tourniquet from a shoestring and a stick to keep him from bleeding to death, while another gingerly picked up the severed hand and wrapped it in a handkerchief. Pennell was rushed to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Packed...