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...Vietnamese troops say they are here to help, and what do they do? Loot the villages. Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Phnom-Penh: What Is Going On? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

Thanks to Clement's superb sense of mood and control, the film skips along so briskly that the viewer forgets that two hours is a long time to spend watching an ancient contrivance complete with a menacing stranger, misleading extra corpses and mixed handbags of loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hitchcock by Clement | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...theater was his untimely death at the age of 34. Orton gleefully beat sacred cows on their way to the last roundup (Entertaining Mr. Shane; TIME, Oct. 22, 1965). He was a black-comedy farceur who could dance on a coffin and spit in the corpse's eye (Loot; TIME, March 29, 1968). It has been said that "a joke is a scream for help." In Orton's mouth, a joke was an urbane substitute for murder. He was a wild Wilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughtime in Bedlam | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...said Denny McLain en route to winning 31 games for the Detroit Tigers in 1968. His daydreams were both ambitious and ingenuous: the loot of J. Paul Getty and the life-style of Frank Sinatra, a fellow he admired because "he doesn't give a damn about anything." As of last week, McLain was far from being a billionaire. He did succeed, though, in emulating Sinatra somewhat. The day after Frankie testified before a committee investigating organized crime in his native New Jersey, Denny appeared before a federal grand jury in Detroit that is investigating a nationwide sports gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Denny the Dupe | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...mild bunch descends on the cash resources of NATO, which are being moved from France to Belgium via freight train. Three separate elements pursue the loot: a tough Mafioso (Eli Wallach), two French thieves (Bourvil and Jean-Paul Belmondo) and an elegant supercriminal (David Niven) known respectfully as "the Brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mild Bunch | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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