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Police charge that McLeod would collect a stock of small items in various thefts and then transport the lot to New York in a car where it was liquidated by pawning. About $1,000 of an estimated $20,000 loot has been recovered...
...Girl of 20. When the sack of San Pedro moved into the next operation, looting, it became plain that Tulio had an extraordinary co-commander: a dark, slim girl of about 20. The bandits called her Doña Edelmira; she wore men's clothes, carried two revolvers and a knife, seemed to be Tulio's girl. Edelmira directed the pillage. The bandits stacked the loot in the plaza, loaded it on stolen mules. Bandolero, Edelmira enforced a stern rule upon the men; she permitted no raping or kidnaping of the village women...
...Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing names and numbers...
...swoop down on some rich squire (such as a boy carrying groceries home), rob him and eat his riches in the forest. In Port Clyde, Maine, where the family spent the summers, Andy found another native nonconformist. Together they learned to handle a dory in heavy surf and to loot lobstermen's pots at night...
Retorted Langsner: adventure for its own sake is not enough-it should be a byproduct of exploration. "In the long run, the exploring artist returns with more loot because he sees more; he sees more because his sense of purpose alerts him to what he himself can find rather than what will turn up by accident...