Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Harris is a hit man brought in by Underworld Overlord Edmund O'Brien to fight his gang war for him. O'Brien's rival is Bradford Dillman; Dillman's big gun is Chuck Connors, who performs various cruelties (on Kathrine Baumann, among others) with an artificial arm. The sadism strikes the moviemakers as funny; it is not. And as further evidence of the decline of Director Frankenheimer's creative energy, the film approaches tragedy...
...Ballantine quickly notices, because the bank has not been built yet. Karp wants to knock over its temporary home, a modest but well-guarded house trailer. This is no easy matter to begin with, but Ballantine and his five-thumbed cronies make it even harder than necessary. The gang includes a giggly jet-setter, an ex-FBI agent who is Al G. Karp's nephew, a screwy mother and her manic son, and a black safecracker who wants to use his cut of the profits to run for mayor of Anaheim...
...Wall Street Gang...
...Houston's Fifth Ward, a ghetto that even today throbs with uneasily repressed violence. His parents separated when George was a boy, and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade, quickly becoming a terror on the streets. Drunk on rotgut wine, "Monkey" Foreman was a savage gang fighter. "When we started a fight, we'd look around to see if Monkey was there," recalls Don Thomas, a former gang member with Foreman. "You had two or three cats whipped...
...police abuse occurred this summer involving black victims and white police officers. A maintenance worker at Walden Square said he tried to stop a fight on a July afternoon when a patrolman set his attack dog after him. In another incident an East Cambridge man was assaulted by a gang of white youths and he alleges he was refused aid when he called Cambridge police...