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...FEET TALL. A crackling African adventure story about a stray British orphan (Fergus McClelland) and a fugitive diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) whose hideout is the kind of paradise that all boys dream about...
...Mountains. As described by Portuguese peasants who have made it, the journey to France is both circuitous and cruel. Once he has paid the local smuggling agent for his passage, the peasant is sent to a mountain hideout near the Spanish border, where he joins a group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there...
...peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Robinson) whose wilderness hideout looks like paradise enough...
This virile, whimsical odyssey rises to a not-quite-credible climax at the Mexican hideout of Dixie Renegade Edmond O'Brien. It is two years since Appomattox, but O'Brien, nursing a mad dream that he will resume the Civil War, has established himself in a sort of alfresco plantation house as commander in chief of 1,000 or more Apache Confederate troops. Crazy, sure. But if Rio Conchos is no High Noon, it is a tough-minded little western that cuts the television competition down to size. It makes most of the saddlesoap operas that jockey...
...senior deacons, the prophetess notified Charles Stacey, a white attorney practicing in Ndola, that she was ready to give herself up -if the government guaranteed her fair treatment. Delighted, Stacey immediately won Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda's consent. One afternoon last week, in a remote mud-hut hideout in the north, Alice Lenshina said farewell to 200 hymn-singing tribesmen, climbed into a Land Rover, and with Stacey at her side, was driven off to jail...