Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murder, conspiracy, intimidation and other arts of Communist politics. Most of his adult life has been spent either in Hungary's jails or in Moscow's schools for sabotage. On Moscow's orders, he framed Cardinal Mindszenty, executed his colleague Laszlo Rajk, helped the Russians to kidnap Majority Leader Bela Kovacs, and forced Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile...
When Jane Russell, an ex-night club singer, and her husband (Vincent Price) arrive at Las Vegas, everything starts happening at once: the necklace disappears, a night-club owner is killed, Mr. Price gets thrown in the clink, Miss Russell is kidnapped, and before long ex-boy-friend Mature is playing cat-and-mouse with the kidnap car in a helicopter over the Nevada desert...
Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...
...News got 12%, but two-thirds of it concerned the local kidnap-murder of ten-year-old Patricia Jean Hull...
...horses. It takes place not in the West but on the Florida frontier of 1890, when the U.S. mail traveled between primitive Miami and Palm Beach on bare but intrepid feet. The menace comes from a marauding band of beachcombers, who would as gladly rob the postal service as kidnap the ingenue or shoot up the village of Miami. In bright new SupercineColor,* they accomplish all three...