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Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, arrest and detention are the most crucial phases of his entire case. In the intimidating atmosphere of a station house, vigorous police grilling often takes on all the aspects of a star chamber. "The trial," observes one jurist, "is too often merely a review of that interrogation." Even if the defendant later recants a confession in court, it is one man's oath against those of three or four detectives. A distinguished federal judge said recently...
Since his first film break in Private's Progress, he has played virtually every Anglo-Saxon subspecies from crook to cad, fop to daredevil. He does most of his own stunts, trembling with fear...
...soon, the sham preacher helps a cattle rustler escape from jail. Persuaded to hide the hot-blooded crook in her Pullman berth, Catherine (Jane Fonda) begins to reveal a flair for lawlessness and disorder that turns out to be her most endearing trait. After she blows into Wolf City at gale force, her father is murdered for his land by a hired gunfighter (Lee Marvin). Catherine becomes "Cat," an outlaw queen who scourges the countryside assisted by the amorous rustler, his prayerful accomplice, a Beatle-thatched Indian, and a drunken, generally unemployable gunfighter she can call her own (Lee Marvin...
...What kind of man is this Rowe that comes into a fraternal organization by hook or crook?" cried Murphy. "He cares not what he swears to, and let me say this, gentlemen: he took an oath when he joined the United Klans of America. Remember Judas Iscariot! [Rowe] took this oath with his hand raised to Almighty God in joining the United Klans of America...
...corporation business and journalists must learn to play the sycophant, Stone's bald outrage at the frauds of governments and men seems pretty strong stuff. (I remember the raised eyebrows last year as Izzy declined to equivocate on questions from a Kirkland forum: "Jimmy Hoffa? He's a lousy crook. Belongs in jail. . . . Dean Rusk? The kind of guy you grow at Harvard--a sophisticated, educated, cultivated big bag of nothing.") A subscriber's salvation is that the unfair, bull-headed way Stone maligns his heroes is more than compensated for by the way he rears back and knocks...