Word: heists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claude Lelouch, starring Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard and Lino Ventura) is so much gauzy enchantment that it takes some extra deep breathers to come down once you've hit the street. The movie could fill the prescription of the most diehard dream factory devotee--romance and a robbery heist, suspense and soft-boiled humor, a 'sensitive' style that cloaks everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though it would be a shame...
...Francoise asks him how he came by such a profession, he shrugs, "I come by mine the same way you do by yours, out of need or by choice." He is obviously the moral man. He is also the glamorous gangster. Given the style in which he executes the heist--posing as a rich ice cream manufacturer, vacationing in a Ritzy Cannes hotel, driving a Mercedes, bowling over women the while--it's a wonder that anybody ever goes straight. The answer is that they're gutless (feminized). It takes a Simon, a Courageous man, to abandon a safe life...
Daniel Robbins, director of the Fogg, bemoans the heist of the silver, gold, and bronze coins. "This is an incalcuable loss to the study of art history and the ancient world," he says...
...Monday, the FBI assigns almost one-fourth of its 156-man Boston staff to the heist. Cambridge police put together composite drawings of four thieves from descriptions provided by the guard, Charles Pearson, and by an unidentified woman...
...seems that the heist was mastermined by at least two professional art thieves. The police speculate that two persons were needed to complete the crime because of the size of the paintings...