Word: lamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CULDESAC. A strong contender for the most bizarre movie of 1966, this jittery comedy of terrors describes in bloody detail what happens when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Stander) becomes the uninvited house guest of a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) and his swinging young wife (Françhise Dorl...
...coast of Northumberland. There all alone lives a rather odd couple: a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) who dismally fails to satisfy the snippy little chippy (Françoise Dorléac) he has recently wed. She lusts for excitement, and suddenly she gets it. A mobster on the lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into the castle one fine day and institutes a nerve-shredding reign of terror: flashes his firearms, slashes the phone wires, crashes the liquor closet, mashes the host's nose, lashes the wife's bottom, smashes the family Jag, and generally behaves like the sort...
...best measure of the promise of the new pacification effort is that the Viet Cong is worried-and reacting. In the village of Binh Nghia, the team from Vung Tau got off to a fast start thanks largely to the support of Police Chief Nguyen Van Lam, 35. After the villagers, many with blood ties to Viet Cong guerrillas, held a meeting in which they enthusiastically burned a Viet Cong and a North Viet Nam flag and pledged allegiance to the Saigon government, the Viet Cong machine-gunned Police Chief Lam as he sat at tea. In Binh Dinh province...
...Detroit court, if relatives or friends agree to pay the amount set as bail should the defendant take it on the lam, the defendant may be released in the custody of those relatives or friends -or even of himself. No cash is lodged with the court...
South of Saigon, in the Mekong Delta, the nature of the enemy was laid bare in a gruesome incident. A Vietnamese force discovered 25 prisoners of the Viet Cong, mostly civilians and three of them women, shot in their chains at Phu Lam. Twenty were dead. The survivors disclosed that as the Vietnamese closed in, the retreating Viet Cong had told them that they could go free-then shot them in the back as they walked away in their chains...