Word: holdups
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Once "hooked," the youngsters behave frighteningly like older addicts. To get money for heroin, they steal at home, sell the drug on commission in school hallways and lavatories. Some boys become thieves and holdup artists; many a teen-age girl has turned to prostitution...
...four-car collision, a gas leak at Radcliffe, and a hot-dog holdup punctuated the weekend in Cambridge...
...Exit. In Baltimore, Richard Mobely, caught by police in a holdup attempt, explained: "I was trying to raise enough money to get a divorce...
...carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...