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Trial by jury is a relative rarity throughout the world. Apart from English-speaking countries, it exists in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway and some Swiss cantons. Indeed, 80% of the world's criminal jury trials take place in the U.S. Even at that, because most defendants plead guilty and forgo trial or choose to be tried by a judge alone, the U.S. actually produces only 60,000 criminal jury trials a year. Moreover, the frequency of jury trials varies widely-from only three per 100,000 people in Connecticut, to 144 in Georgia...
...flat feet up Mount Sinai, and for his role of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy jammed a plastic noodle into his nose to push it properly out of joint. He took a lengthy driver's course in the chariot for Ben-Hur, polished an English accent with a speech teacher and nightly tapings for seven weeks before Khartoum. "Just once," he admits, "I'd like a role in which...
...King Arthur ever existed, he was hardly the Lerner & Loewe hero who ruled so romantically over the fabled Camelot. He was more likely a quarrelsome and ruthless local chieftain who badgered monks, stole their cattle, and led a hardy band of early English Christians in clobbering barbarian invaders at the battle of Mount Badon in A.D. 517. Still, avid Arthurians yearn to prove either version-and it now looks as though some hard archaeological evidence is at hand in a hilly pasture at Cadbury Castle, 100 miles southwest of London...
...Wrong Box. In a proper English drawing room at the turn of the century, two pulsating Victorian lovers come face to face, and old-style title cards flash a legend upon the screen: Alone with Her at Last-in a Room Full of Eggs. The eggs are part of a collection belonging to the young lady's cousin. The lovers are Michael Caine, a nincompoop medical student bursting with latent virility, and Nanette Newman, a delectable Victorian miss sustained largely by fantasies about the 300 helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality...
...plot demands nothing of audiences except that they remember the definition of a tontine, a sort of lethal lottery: the families of 20 English youngsters each invest ?1,000 in a fund, and some 80 or 90 years later, the last survivor takes all. Two brothers, played with tireless bravura by John Mills and Ralph Richardson, are the champions of longevity, and their efforts to outlive each other lead to a hilarious family reunion in which Mills tries to do away with his sibling by poison, stabbing, strangling and flying crockery...