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...Biograph Theater in Chicago, where Dillinger was ambushed by the FBI. For his version of Dillinger's famed raid on the Mason City, Iowa, bank, Colescott again went to the scene, interviewed Iowans who had been present for the great event. Colescott's version breaks the bank heist into a series of movie stills, evokes Dillinger's gaiety and derring-do with "Fun" lettered in a corner and a half-naked doll, with a star in her navel, strumming a banjo-ukulele. Two naked gun molls accompany the raiders; as Colescott observes, "the Dillinger men took their...
Robbery. A team of German film makers recently stole a home-grown English property: The Great British Train Robbery (TIME, April 21), a plausibly clever re-creation of the 1963 heist of ?2,631,784 from a Royal Mail train. In Robbery, the Limeys have tried to recapture the story for their own, using the talents of Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and a regiment of able character actors, and the cinema verite style of Director Peter Yates. The result, unfortunately, is a hot property gone tepid with time...
...cronies, who drop out or die one by one, does not subdue his larcenous spirit. Finally, he has everything: riches, an elegant home and the beautiful cousin, who rejoins him to share his life. He still cannot quit. In the camera's last view he has completed his heist, and is sitting on a train with satchels full of loot. Before the viewer's eyes he slips from youth to middle age, a pathetic pariah whose luxurious tastes cannot disguise his barren obsession...
...department is also besieged by oddball nominations, including recent proposals for the commemoration of mothers-in-law, the ten most wanted men, the Texas longhorn, the pretzel industry, the hamburger, the 100th anniversary of the first daylight bank robbery in the U.S. (a heist on Feb. 13, 1866, in Liberty, Mo.), and the 4,000th anniversary of the pickle...
...idea for a funny film-ten years ago. Unfortunately. The Jokers are by now low cards in a worn-out deck. The subject of countless scenarios from The Lavender Hill Mob to How to Steal a Million, the hoary story of the happy heist is as much a cliche as the tale of the gun fighter who wants to hang up his shooting irons. Brisk pacing might have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring...