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...INHERITOR. Bart Cordell (Jean Paul Belmondo), only son of a wealthy industrialist, suspects foul play in his father's recent death. He enlists the aid of a private detective, plus journalists on his father's newsmagazine and his own executive lackeys to get to the roots of the problem. The roots, not surprisingly, are rotten with corruption, and lead to an international consortium headed by an Italian businessman who had something nefarious to do with the Jews in Rome during the second World...
...momentum established is artificial and constantly stalls out into spurious suspense. There are some nice incidental observations about the eccentricities of the rich-Cordell has his face imprinted on his personal checks and sleeps with a sort of large, mystic stone under his pillow-but watching The Inheritor gives a general feeling of false movements, like getting jostled in a crowd...
...campaigns, one might conclude that democracy, as practiced in the U.S., is fast becoming a millionaire's game. Certainly H. John Heinz III, great-grandson of the founder of H.J. Heinz Co., would not be Pennsylvania's Congressman from the 18th District today were he not the inheritor of 57 varieties of fame and revenue. But Heinz's constituents, from suburbanites to mill workers, seem so happy with his performance that they are expected to return him to office with a stunning margin...
...garden apartments from coast to coast. At 26, his exploits as a high school basketball star had faded into barbershop statistics. He was wed-locked to Janice Springer, the dim little broad who had sold nuts at the five and dime. He had fathered a daughter and a son, inheritor of those "little Springer hands" that preclude championship ball control. In his first escape attempt, Rabbit sought solace with a girl nearly as melancholy as himself. But he had to return home to bury his baby daughter who drowned after a drunken Janice misplaced the child in the bathtub...
...years, he has had more doors slammed in his face than a traveling salesman and has caused more telephones to be hung up in anger than a recorded message. But few Washington reporters have earned more respect from their colleagues than Jack Northman Anderson, 46, inheritor of the Drew Pearson column...