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...must have rented a box at some point in order to case the place. One immediate suspect: Frenchman Albert Spaggiari, 50, who with seven accomplices in 1976 hit a Societe Generate branch in Nice for $ 10 million in cash and other valuables. Spaggiari was nabbed by police for that heist, but escaped one year later by jumping out the window of a magistrate's office where he was being questioned. A fugitive ever since, he was reportedly spotted recently near Marbella...
...even the smallest throw of the dice--that actually keeps him alive. Watching a horse race, or hunched over a craps table. Bob's eyes narrow in intense concentration and his stolid middle-aged body coils up youthfully like a spring. The ostensible plot of the film, the heist of the Deauville Casino, that Bob undertakes with his friend Roger (Andre Garet), is at once Bob's ironic revenge on Lady Luck--and a gamble itself, as the delightful denouement reveals...
...life's loose ends. The plot comes to a conclusion that is astonishing because it is unexpected and because it satisfies the law and our moral sense. But story is the least of Bob le Flambeur's pleasures. This film is "about" a casino heist the way the other Melville's great novel is "about" a big bad whale: The film's true subject is how a man of a certain integrity (however sleazy his profession) lives in a world that does not set much store by that quality. It is about how such...
Only one was declared not guilty last week: Charles William Dukes, an American veteran of Viet Nam, who was carried onto the 707 under heavy sedation after being seriously wounded during the Seychelles gunfight. He was ruled incapable of having taken part in the heist...
...definition," he writes, Wellfleet is "a safe place to live." When one patrolman finds the town hall locked at night, he reports this fact as a "suspicious incident." The chief borrows the shotgun from a police cruiser when he goes hunting in Maine. During the only local bank heist in anyone's memory, the teller convinces the robber that his take ($300) is a lot of money to carry around in cash. The robber is obediently investing some of it in a Christmas club account when the police arrive. "Down in Provincetown they got murders," a colleague tells...