Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress...
There was little doubt in anyone's mind that Goldwater would win the nomination on the first ballot last night, but there was a particular shock of disappointment and distress when the South Clarolina delegation cast the votes which made it official...
Artificial grass carpeting and cabaret tables ringed the dance floor. To the distress of Secret Service men, tourists strolling along Pennsylvania Avenue had what amounted to ringside seats. The evergreens set out as a screen at the last minute were too skimpy to block the view. As it turned out, it was quite a show...
...never be heard from again," the lads in Union Blue board a river boat where they reconnoiter a contingent of bawds house-mothered by Joan Blondell and infiltrated by Stella Stevens, a Confederate spy. As an anti-hero of such indolent disposition that he lets a lady in distress fend off a villain singlehandedly, Ford appears bemused when he should be amusing. Douglas looks plain uncomfortable, and well he might. He gets caught under collapsing tents, heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear...
...character acting." That was three years ago, and the first character was a homosexual barrister in Victim, which won Bogarde all sorts of praise. Then he groped floppishly through / Could go On Singing and The Mind Benders. Shaken, he signed to do another entrail opera, called Doctor in Distress (still unreleased in the U.S.). But he need not have panicked. He has since appeared in The Servant (TIME, March 20), and critics have given him the serious acceptance he was looking for. More over, just as The Servant opened in the U.S., he was scoring another success on U.S. television...