Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shambling plot follows a callow Parisian bank clerk (Claude Mann) who gets high on beginner's luck and decides to court Dame Fortune at the Cannes Casino. Unfortunately, he meets another dame. Moreau appears, a battered divorcee who has already sacrificed her marriage, her child, and her jewels to the corruptive religion of chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again...
...favor of the grand public figure who served his country, and his century, as First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister through two world wars. "It was the nation and the race dwelling around the world that had the lion's heart," he declares. "I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar." In a masterfully edited collection of stills, family albums, grainy vintage newsreels, and sparkling new color footage. Producer Jack Le Vien (The Black Fox) shows the great events in which Churchill played so commanding a role, from his tour of duty...
Jones doggedly insisted that he was not even in Tennessee when Lee's father was killed. But as it turned out, both hunter and prey had bad legal luck. With the all-male jury reportedly ready to acquit Jones, the prosecution suddenly requested and won a mistrial on the ground that two jurors were relatives of two defense character witnesses. "It ain't fair to me," complained Jones, who may be retried in June. Vowed Lee: "This...
...notch. Desperate now, the Spartans tried anything?and for a while everything worked. They shifted from the T into a short punt formation and drew the Notre Dame line off side. They caught the Irish secondary napping, with a 51-yd. pass that cut the gap to 20-7. Luck helped a lot: two Notre Dame touchdowns were nullified. But now the aroused State defense was starting to harry Huarte. Somehow he still managed to get the ball away?sidearm, underhand, any way at all. And when he couldn't pass, he ran like a halfback?ripping...
Conveniently flung together by hard luck, the four men head through Apache country to find a Southern trader who may know the whereabouts of 2,000 carbines stolen from a U.S. Cavalry shipment. En route they brawl and bicker, drink and debauch in a rugged Old West that appears to be crawling with bandidos, prostitutes and sadistic savages. They add an Indian girl to their retinue, a sensible primitive who talks little and doesn't keep any of the fellows awake nights...