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...possibility arises that Goldman himself is Dorff, ironically, making a new life for himself as a Jew. "This isn't a rest cure," he barks at one point. "Back to work, scum. Nobody gets out except through the chimney!" Soon, a team of Israeli agents appears. They kidnap him and take him to Israel to stand trial...
...Crimes. Last year Floriot defended two Paris detectives implicated in the kidnap-murder of Algerian Rebel Leader Ben Barka; one was acquitted, the other got six years. In 1961, he braved President de Gaulle's wrath in winning a suspended sentence for General Gustave Mentre, an accused conspirator in the Algiers coup...
...makes both conviction and imposition of the death sentence more likely, by violating the defendant's right to a jury picked from a full cross section of the community. The second California case differs markedly. In that one, Robert Emmett Thornton, 23, has already been convicted of two kidnap-rapes. While he was awaiting formal sentencing, the A.C.L.U. asked to be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of capital punishment. In a rare move, the judge agreed to take evidence on the point: in September, such anti-death-penalty experts as former San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy will testify against...
...Happening. "Is it real, is it fake?" yammer the Supremes over the picture's titles. "Is this game of life a mistake?" Indeed it is, at least in this film. Three fun-burned Miami boys and a girl in search of the beach goddess, Kicks, decide to kidnap a wealthy racketeer (Anthony Quinn). As it happens, Quinn is unredeemable. Desperate phone calls reveal that his wife and partner are cuckolding him ("For $200,000 you can keep the son of a bitch," she snarls). His Mafia associates refuse to extend their black hand; even his mother would rather help...
...Thompson's taxi was mysteriously switched, whereupon the taxi headed for a garage for repairs. There, Thompson and his traveling companion were asked to take another taxi that already contained two men, but refused to share the ride. Friends figure that this may have been an abortive kidnap attempt. On the day that Thompson disappeared, a caravan of five cars was seen going up the usually traffic-free road to the highlands and coming down three hours later- right after Jim Thompson vanished...