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...with a bad case of saddle sores, and cacklingly tells the condemned that they have the kind of "necks that'll snap pretty good." The joke, see, is that Stewart is really Martin's square-shootin' brother, and the hangman bit is a ruse to spring Dino and the boys. The trick clicks, and the gang gallops off into the bandolero (bandit) country of Mexico. On the way they pick up a shapely senorita (Raquel Welch) as a hostage...
...Raquel. When the gang is finally attacked by some bandoleros, Martin falls mortally wounded and gaspingly tells Raquel that if a girl like her could like a guy like him, then "there must be something good in me." Nursing a ventilated chest, Stewart staggers by to add that old Dino "always wanted the right things" but somehow "it was always hard for him to see the light at the end of the trail." And so, fans, ever true to the old Hollywood epitaph, they died with their boots in their mouths...
...stop by at its filling stations to play "Tigerama." Mobil's "Winning Line" offers $1,000 to anybody who completes a card with pictures of three gas pumps; Sinclair offers up to $2,500 to customers who match up coupons to spell out a slogan in its "Dino Dollars" contest. With no requirement that the driver buy gas (thus ensuring that the games will not be classified as lotteries) and with prizes including watches, luggage, color-TV sets, automobiles and up to $10,000 in cash, the oil companies' 304 different current giveaway contests would seem like hard...
...they are trying all kinds of gambits to make them shorter. Newspapers carry personal ads seeking matches, with an offer to split the prize. John Racanelli, owner of a Chicago pizza parlor, is typical; he spent $8 advertising in two papers for the other half of his $2,500 Dino Dollar card. "Everybody who called had the same coupon I did," says Racanelli. "I never won anything...
...quarter of a century since Albert Camus wrote The Stranger, perhaps still the best modern novel of alienation and despair. Though Camus steadfastly refused to allow it, or any of his other books, to be made into a movie, his widow finally sold the film rights to Italian Producer Dino De Laurentiis on condition that the director be Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers...