Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though all my law is fudge, Yet I'll never, never budge, But I'll live and die a judge! -Trial by Jury, Gilbert & Sullivan...
...tells the police captain of an old enemy he has seen a moment ago driving through town with a blonde; this fellow just happens to have a price of $50,000 on his head for a kidnap-killing he may or may not have committed. The police captain (Gilbert Roland), an embittered tough guy suffering from malaria as well as some of the corniest lines ever delivered in Death Valley, sets out in a truck with Von Sydow and three Mexican assistants to hunt down the fugitives (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Yvette Mimieux) and claim the reward...
...also virtually without the kind of intensity of character that would have made audiences care whether anybody got back to civilization. Except Miss Mimieux. She is so pretty and so puzzled by the whole misadventure, and her pale, pale hair is so nicely combed. As Captain Gilbert Roland declares: "She is the only life in the desert within us. She must not be destroyed...
...Like Gilbert and Sullivan's policemen in The Pirates of Penzance, chorusing their intention to attack but loath to do so, Britain's leaders have been demanding an end to the limp management and wasteful labor practices that make the British economy creak. Results to date: roughly zero. Last week the Labor government released its long-expected five-year economic plan, which was designed to give British industry and labor a goal to aim at-and a bit of a kick in that direction. Drawn up by Economics Minister George Brown and in preparation for eleven months...
...JOAN K. GILBERT...