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...brother had died in a wild shootout while trying to kidnap hostages from the Marin County courthouse, presumably in order to bargain for Jackson's free dom. Davis had been circumstantially tied to the episode...
...Eagle Has Landed proceeds from a preposterous premise. Some time late in World War II, half-mad Hitler conceives a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin as a hostage against the fate that the dictator sees gathering for him. In preparing a feasibility study of this enterprise in order to placate the leader, German intelligence discovers that it actually is not such a bad idea after all. The movie -which shows how this crazy notion was placed in operation and damn near succeeded-is a good idea too. One almost comes to believe the source...
...affluent society grows more infantile day by day. I-want-it-now is characteristic of our bank robbers, muggers, embezzlers and kidnap-extortionists. Obey-that-impulse is a feature of rapists and murderers. Obviously no one is going to blame the credit-card industry for the upsurge of violence and criminality, but to the extent that opinion leaders endorse the philosophy of immediate, uninhibited gratification of impulse, they are helping to create the climate in which young people who cannot get credit cards demand-and seize-that same impulse gratification...
...daughter, Prudence, 18, from a first marriage and three children, Elisabeth, 8, Lachlan, 5, and James, 4, by his wife Anna, 32, a stunningly attractive, quick-witted former Sydney Daily Mirror reporter, whom he married in 1967. Six years ago, in London, Anna was the target of a kidnap attempt in which the wife of a Murdoch lieutenant was murdered. Murdoch did not stop his plebeian practice of taking the subway to work every day, but he hired bodyguards...
...will be plenty more. Cross of Iron is the story of the German retreat across Russia after Stalingrad; Dog Soldiers revolves around three Viet Nam veterans who become involved with both heroin and the CIA; and The Eagle Has Landed is a fictional account of a German attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. The towering Tory, a famous old brandy sniffer, would at least like the casting. He is portrayed by the proprietor of the Beehive, a country pub in Kent...