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...rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times is evidence...
...name. Last week, under the nom d'entrepreneur D. Thompson, he barely paused in mid-career to count himself "pleased" with having made a woman's picture at a time when male stars dominate the screen. He does admit to being "thrilled" by Mahogany's fast getaway at the box office. As ever, Berry Gordy's emotional highs seem to stem less from the heart than from the bottom line of his all-black ledger...
...link was a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, stolen in Oakland, Calif., that was used as a getaway car. Investigators believe Patty rented garage space for the car in Sacramento the week before the robbery. The Sacramento police received a tip that the garage had been rented by a young woman who was acting suspiciously. TIME has learned that the police set up a stakeout on the car, which lasted from Monday through Friday, April 14 to 18. No one showed up. But on Saturdays and Sundays only a skeleton police force guards the relaxed city of Sacramento, so the watch...
...victim-Thomas Dean Matthews-has testified that Patty not only seemed totally at ease but boasted about her nascent criminal career. A second state charge is that Patty took part in the armed robbery of a sporting-goods store, shooting up the façade to help in the getaway. Bailey will have trouble proving coercion because witnesses have placed Patty alone in the car outside the store with plenty of opportunity to escape...
...easy to see why this story, based on a real incident, would appeal to film makers trying to make a tough-minded comment on urban existence. A bond of affection grows, unbidden, unconsciously between the crooks and the hostages they must take when their plans for a quick getaway are foiled. The crooks don't want to kill, the hostages don't want to be killed, and so they are leagued against those forces of law-and-order whose job it is to keep a relentless pressure on the surrounded bank...