Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American enforcement, like Colombia's, is hampered by corruption. Says Dade County, Fla., Chief of Narcotics Investigation Jack Rafferty: "The money floating around has the potential to corrupt nearly anyone." Coast Guard officers have reported attempted bribes of as much as $15,000, and one secretary working for the DEA in Florida went to jail for stealing secret intelligence files. In Key West, four city police were charged last September with serving as lookouts while marijuana was unloaded at a city dock by a smuggling ring. In Jamaica Bay, Long Island, a fishing boat named The Darlene C, carrying...
...agent of his undoing is Jean-Paul, a roguish Parisian chauffeur (Jack Lenoir) who sees that the screenwriter is too cubical to make a move toward the very available Hunnicutt character and who does the necessary maneuvering himself. He is a scampish servant of classical comedy, who cleverly manages his master's life without neglecting his own comfort. At the film's end, when the screenwriter threatens to violate the rules of worldliness by falling in love, Jean-Paul saves him from the folly of earnestness by bedding the lady himself. The writer does not take this kindness...
...film's precarious appeal depends on the attractiveness of Rogers and Hunnicutt, who are pleasant to watch even when they are delivering empty speeches, the dependable duty of Paris and the presence of Jack Lenoir, who makes a great chauffeur and rogue...
...punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped on her. An orangutan called Clyde does cute monkeyshines that recall the heyday of Jack Lescoulie and J. Fred Muggs on the Today show. Sondra Locke, a pretty good actress and an Eastwood protégée, comes on to sing the obligatory country-and-western songs in a modified screech...
...less than reverential treatment. Instead of dirty linen, there's clean linen: in one scene we learn that Harry Truman (Harry Morgan) regularly laundered his own underwear! The attempts to humanize the Presidents are childish. Does it really tell us anything that Wilson once danced to Balling the Jack...