Word: heists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later, Danny was before the court himself, and the judge dismissed a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from a street brawl last March. That still left Danny with a problem: robbery charges involving a restaurant heist last November...
...criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted on the waiter, he bursts into hysterical laughter and ardently proclaims his guilt, as if escaping years of nonentity in a moment of wicked splendor...
...abduction from the seraglio is the prettiest piece of acrobatic larceny since the heist scene in Topkapi, and in the last reel Director Ronald Neame (The Horse's Mouth) contrives five trick endings in rapid succession that finish the film with a rousing funfare...
...detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss, 72, collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other suspects' phones, Bailey got the tipster to agree to tape-record his bugging conversations with the inspectors, who have not yet been able to get an indictment...
...seem as boisterous as his art. He reportedly beat his first wife and wore out his second, having an aggregate of some dozen children. Like Rembrandt, he eventually went bankrupt, since, for all his subsequent popularity, he never during his life commanded the prices paid to Bartholomeus van der Heist, whose stiff portraiture was the rage...