Word: kidnap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Klein, with more detachment: "It is an irony that it ended with a kidnap, the same way it started...
...U.S.O. troupe drafted by army intelligence to infiltrate the island hideout of the notorious traitor, Alura. Alura is an old trouper herself with a weakness for show biz, and so does not suspect that the U.S.O. troupe is really there to discover how she has managed to kidnap and hold two thousand of our G.I.'s. In usual musical fashion, the entire cast breaks down into girlfriends and boyfriends. The U.S.O. troupe consists of three couples. Alura lives with her nearly-Frankensteinian lover, Max. Even the peripheral characters travel around in twos, and then there are these twins who keep...
...they recognized the group's mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 49, a notorious far-rightist who had already served seven months for a stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium and issued a peremptory statement: the Cortes was to be abolished forthwith, and "a competent military authority" would arrive...
...treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world by shrinking the masses. They kidnap poor Pat to run experiments on her, but, with the help of a gorilla (yes, another smart movie gorilla), she tries to escape and tell all of the terrible conspiracy. What happened to the clever social commentary, the biting satire? What happened to the attacks on advertising and the tube? Maybe...
...Doralee (Dolly Parton) is frilly, Vi (Lily Tomlin) is sensible. Together, though, they are a Stenographic catastrophe; they'd lose the quick-brown-fox race to Charlie's Angels. Vi, "the smart one," thinks she has poisoned her insufferable boss; she hasn't. The three then kidnap a cadaver from the hospital, thinking they've got their boss in the car trunk; they haven't. The movie is just as absentmindedly schizophrenic. Nine to Five thinks it's a suspenseful comedy with a mind of its own; it isn't and hasn...