Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serve in the Army. I find it quite ironic that a man who has preached nonviolence all his life should be charged for such a thing, and for God's sake I didn't know that the cane-part of a collection of over 100-had a knife concealed...
...Yanne and Audran (who is Mrs. Chabrol in private life). In Chabrol's treatment, the schoolmistress not only triggers the killer's dormant psychopathy but becomes a partner in his crime. Perversely, as he becomes more dangerous, she is all the more drawn to him. Finally, knife in hand, the crazed killer confronts her late at night in her apartment. It is only then, in a violent, weird, but somehow touching denouement, that the two finally embrace...
...junkie breaks free, pulls a knife, and nicks Russo before they can take it away from him. Though it's an old game for all of them, the beating is more physically wrenching than any of the film's splashy shootings. When the detectives have all the information they can get, Doyle exacts a last, unnecessary ounce of submission by forcing him to confess to nonsense accusations by the threat of more beating. The nonsense-accusation sequence is a suspect-baiting device Friedkin picked up from Detective Eddie Egan, the cop on whom Doyle's character is based, who plays...
Back at the precinct station, Russo shrugs to Doyle "I didn't know he had a knife...
...another along the 1,400-mile border that reaches from the icy heights of Kashmir through the flat plains of the Punjab down to the desert of western India. There the battle was being waged by bearded Sikhs wearing khaki turbans, tough, flat-faced Gurkhas, who carry a curved knife known as a kukri in their belts, and many other ethnic strains. Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend...