Word: getaways
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...play at a game. So can three, and Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) is pretty hard to beat. The tension builds nicely, the shocks come pat when they're supposed to, and the last reel combines irony, scenery and the internal-combustion engine in a getaway with...
...Collector, by John Fowles. A taut thriller about a dour young man who spots the girl of his clouded dreams-and sets about getting her with a chloroformed gag, a getaway truck, and a cottage in the country that has a priest's hole in the cellar...
...massacre was unmistakably the work of a bandit gang led by William Aranguren, nicknamed Desquite (Revenge). A onetime army private who flunked out of military police school, Aranguren wears an army captain's uniform, plans his attacks like grand military campaigns. To help assure his getaway after the slaughter, Aranguren had his men cut telephone lines to surrounding towns...
...which four men swiped a half-ton of gold from a financial-district bullion warehouse in the lunch hour. After tying up a watchman, the villains nonchalantly lugged forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked every small foundry in London on the off-chance that they might...
...cast to type as the card-carrying hoodlum, almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What's more he seems to know that there is something fishy about his getting caught in this eat-now-pay-later bouillabaisse...