Word: ill-gotten
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...when Ford and his greedy partner, Ricardo Montalban, go to investigate a shooting at the home of Dr. Joseph Gotten. Gunned down by the shady doctor, a dying thief tells them that he was trying to lift $500,000 stashed in a wall safe. The cops persuade themselves that ill-gotten gains might as well line the pockets of two hard-working law officers, and conspire to do some Cotten-pickin' after hours. Their moonlighting ends in a mock-Shakespearean finale. While Montalban overacts outrageously, Ford fires bullets along with a somewhat more lethal barrage of words, words, words...
...film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...
...Four Star Television. Boyer is a co-owner of Four Star, along with David Niven. They are both in the series, which NBC describes as "a comedy-melodrama about a family of jet-set jewel thieves and con men who are masters of separating the pompous rich from their ill-gotten gains . . . played against a backdrop of Riviera beaches, palatial villas, beautiful women and green felt gaming tables...
...predictable split-second schedule, practically everything goes wrong. At the climax, Old Wave Director Henri Verneuil achieves a scene that is a gem of understatement. Plopped down at poolside like a bull walrus minus his tusks and a billion clams, Veteran Actor Gabin blinks goodbye to his ill-gotten gains, filling the moment with memorable stupefaction. Best side bets of Any Number Can Win are glimpses of the human flotsam and jetsam beached on the Riviera, but all in all it is a cinematic gamble that never quite pays...
...Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing was over. Gold and precious stones were cheap, but life was cheaper." A Royal Tear. In 1692 an earthquake shook...