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...foreign tourists, the Paris cop seems a model of quiet courtesy. He directs them to American Express and Thomas Cook with a debonair salute; he guides gladiatorial traffic with a calm nonchalance. Frenchmen look on le flic quite differently. Apart from their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
...were at fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also gotten a little tired of the overzealous use of submachine guns issued during the past Algerian terrorist outbreaks. When a panther escaped from a circus, a flic mistook a shadow for the beast and in error plugged a passerby. Another ludicrously chopped up a cow, broken loose from a slaughterhouse, with his tommy...
...review o' a flic callit The Bridal Path [Dec. 28] werr itsel' a bit o' a clish-maclaverlie skirling indeed, indeed. Wha' wi' a' tha ap'str'phes an' dooble-Gaelic an' sich orrtheaugraficul odditees as wuid baefuddle e'en tha quare English boobies tae tha sooth, a mon cuid reedie feind 'is puir Glengarry a muckle addled amoong a' tha thistly syntax...
...wins her dirty little game. She seduces the chauffeur (Daniel Gélin). who seduces the maid (Jocelyne Mercier), who thereupon becomes a pliable witness to all sorts of things she imagines she has seen. In the end it takes some very clever police work by a marvelously grimacious flic (Bernard Blier) to bring the criminals to book-but then, come to think of it, what crime have they committed...
...excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches of ten. Sharp-eyed French cashiers first spotted the forgeries when banknotes began coming in with no pin holes. Flic Chiappe did better. One of his agents had gone with three of the forgers and a trunkful of notes to Holland. He produced the evidence that led to a major political crisis in Hungary and jailed more than a dozen of the most important men in Budapest...