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...trunk. "What am I going to do with all these rabbits?" he bellows, opening up the trunk and blasting away at them with his shotgun, which he also commences to turn on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. This movie adeptly creates the sort of antic cartoon world where crooks case the getaway route in ice-cream carts, disarm a security guard by dressing in drag, and break into a bank vault by the simple expedient of blasting it with an enormous antitank...
...totally predictable whenever it manages to make sense, shuttles Thomasine (Vonetta McGee) and Bushrod (Max Julien) from caper to caper with small regard for continuity. Yet, there are some nice, funny, affectionate moments between the two lead actors. She is always at him about something, like holding up their getaway from a bank robbery so she can snap a photograph. He is very wry, very careful about her, and although one can see the last ambush coming a long distance away, it is still a wrenching moment. McGee and Julien (he also wrote the script and coproduced) have made...
...state making it a punishable offense to be untrussed in a car. This would prevent incidents like the one experienced by a couple parked on a lonely beach in Southern California. Seeing a pair of armed men approaching, the driver instinctively turned his ignition key to make a fast getaway. Nothing happened. Then, while the driver and his date were frantically buckling up, one mugger thrust his gun through the car's sunroof and relieved the lovers of their money...
...start to rob small-town banks. They do it with matter-of-fact efficiency, and Altman treats them in the same even way. He is not concerned with the mechanics of the heist but the social subcurrents beneath it. Almost anyone else would have included a lot of hairbreadth getaway sequences, but Altman concentrates on portraying the glowering emptiness that daily confronts the robbers. He is especially good at rendering the sort of foggy existential desperation that surrounds his characters and lies at the core of the doomed affair between Bowie and a rather vacant girl called Keechie (Shelley Duvall...
...families, the Hearsts of California, continued trying desperately to deal with an altogether different abduction: perhaps the first political kidnaping in U.S. history. Members of the revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army, who dragged 19-year-old Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment and flung her into the trunk of a getaway car, at first ordered her father Randolph to feed all the needy of California as a condition for her return. It was a demand that not even the Hearst millions could possibly meet...