Word: gigolos
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...Fire starts, an alcoholic gigolo (Maurice Ronet) is drying out in a Versailles sanatorium. His doctor says he is cured, but the patient demurs. "All my life," he broods, "I have done nothing but wait. Wait for something to happen, I don't know what. Life moves too slowly in me. I must speed it up. Tomorrow I will kill myself...
...right, if tiresomely unoriginal, when he says that in an anxious age big-city dwellers are too often out of touch with each other and with the fundamental realities of their lives. But the spectator's eyes will probably glaze a little when the death of the gigolo is laboriously identified with the death of the heart in contemporary civilization. And his hackles will surely rise when the whole pretentious mess is blamed on him. In an epilogue addressed to the public the hero peevishly announces: "I leave a stain upon you, an indelible stain." Spinach, perhaps...
...strolling on the pier after refusing-an aging degenerate's offer of 2,000,000 francs for one of his paintings-and the painter. Con Man Jean-Claude Brialy says he spent the night of the crime trying to peddle his kid sister to a tourist. And Gigolo Renato Salvatori was supposedly helping his latest client recover from an overdose of sleeping pills. As the case of "the triplets" unfolds, police and jury realize that they may have to free two murderers to save one innocent man. But the really guilty ones are Director Cayatte...
...Will Rock, mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...
...galleries of the shelter. The tycoon's blonde daughter. The tycoon's colored butler-old-fashioned enough to do a bit of praying. The butler's honey-colored sexpot daughter. The Japanese gardener's son. A dreamy Hawaiian-Chinese girl. An Italian-American gangster-gigolo type with a switch knife. A gas-meter reader. An Ivy League dope engaged to the tycoon's daughter...