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Down the hill and around the corner from Pigalle, however, is the Place Vendome. Rififi, a superb little French gangster film, proves that the Place Vendome really isn't much different from Madison Avenue. It's just as hard to rob a jewelry store at the Place Vendome as it is on Madison Avenue, and you have to wear a clean white shirt and pressed trousers to do it. And you get caught, too, for all your trouble...
...left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand a smoking target pistol. "When that man pointed his gun at Dad's head," said Bobby Kuhel, "I just saw red. I didn't know I fired twice...
...What happens when you can't be a cynic any more? What do you do?" Increasingly this has been the question asked by knife-faced Jack Levine, 41, Boston slum-born painter whose big reputation is based on such satire-veined canvases as Welcome Home, Gangster Funeral, Election Night (TIME, May 20, 1946 et seq.). His answer, Medicine Show, more than a year in the painting, is on display this week at Manhattan's Alan Gallery. It is more the work of a reformer than that of a cynic, attacking the world of ballyhoo which promotes "something people...
...York City." Manhattan police, meanwhile, have sifted what one tired cop called "a million" clues. A sample last week was the testimony given a Havana judge by one Rafael ("The Corpse") Soler, who is under indictment for the murder of an anti-Trujillo Dominican exile in Havana last summer. Gangster Soler said that in 1953 a "Trujillo agent" offered him $100,000 to kill Galindez, but he found the job "too risky." The New York police sent for a transcript and prepared to delve into the background of the incident, hoping to find a solid lead, but the final solution...
Creating spoofs of odd gangster types, the actors turn this bedlam into constant comedy. As chief thief, Guinness wears enormous sweaters, a ten foot scarf, and chipmunk teeth. The stare of a worried, weird master-mind that often adorns his face can merge effortlessly into an upset smile of sudden defeat or a polished smirk of careless confidence. Gliding through perpetual intrigue, Guinness is at his best...