Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talents. On the other hand, Sellers is amply provided for. Once again, he is well served by his houseboy, Cato, hiding in his apartment and leaping out at him for ferociously funny karate encounters. Sellers also has a couple of fine set pieces-interrogating all the witnesses to the crime, wrestling with a Russian superspy (Lesley-Anne Down) and a ludicrously athletic attempt to penetrate Lom's castle. And the Richard Williams studio has outdone itself in the title animation sequence. It is perhaps ungrateful to wish that the linking parts of the film were more artfully tooled. Better...
...Dostoyevsky were reincarnated as an Englishman, he might write novels like Piers Paul Read. His books are packed with demons perceived as the rattling of a vicar's teacups, clubrooms full of failed saints and even failed sinners, all wearing the old school tie. In short, crime and, above all, punishment during a weekend on a Cornwall estate...
...saved by, among other things, World War II, which−rest assured−he sits out in the U.S., selling books in a shop in Chicago while his wife and twins are killed by the Nazis. Twenty years later Stefan returns to Europe to commit a romantic crime, have a religious revelation...
From the first, the family of Samuel Bronfman II figured on a guilty verdict for the two men accused of kidnaping the young Seagram liquor heir. Anything less would be a slap at Sam and them-a judgment that the "victim" had really masterminded the crime for the $2.3 million ransom. Late last week, as 120 people crowded the White Plains, N.Y., courtroom, the jury filed back after 19 hours and 30 minutes of deliberation and delivered a stunning decision: not guilty of kidnaping...
Their assumed crime was a ten-minute shooting spree in Brownsville, Texas during which one person was killed. Extensive research by Author John D Weaver for his 1970 book, The Brownsville Raid, indicated that the shootings had probably been staged by local white vigilantes who resented the stationing of black troops near the town. Nevertheless, 167 blacks were stripped of their ranks and cashiered without a trial...