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...place that his characters are tied to. The Cheap Detective is no exception, but it's a looser and much better script than Murder, and a much better movie. There were 11 names above the title in Murder; here there are 16. Cheap Detective largely shoots off The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and Chinatown. Peter Falk is sensational...
Those lines were written in 1888, when the future Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott was 20 years old. They seem like an appropriate epigraph for this play by Ted Tally, 25, which explores the heart of courage in a white hell of adversity...
...that point, the sparse IAB crowd had been entertained by an encore performance of the Banks-and-Fine show, with Brian hitting 12 of 16 field goals, hauling down six rebounds and blocking half a dozen Falcon shots, while Glenn popped for ten and dished out nine assists. Gary Ackerman (12 points) and Hooft (11) turned in solid supporting roles...
Banks abused the Falcon offense, whirling and shooting with authority from inside for 13 first-half points...
Harvard came out hustling in the second half, pulling into a 64-all tie on a Banks free throw at 6:29. But Bentley turned on the retro-burners and the quick, well-oiled Falcon offensive machine reassumed the lead on a couple of fast breaks...