Word: margret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once a Thief spends much too much time establishing the sexual compatibility of its two stars: Frenchman Alain Delon, who rates as a kind of male Bardot, and Hollywood's Ann-Margret (Bus Riley's Back in Town), who proves once again that it was good looks, not good acting, that made her the outstanding young box-office attraction...
...soon as the lengthy love scenes are out of the way, the story gets clicking. Alain is a nice young ex-con trying to straighten out with the help of Wife Ann-Margret but with no help at all from his gangster brother. First thing anybody knows, there is poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk...
...resume his old job as an auto mechanic, Bus declines an apprenticeship with a homosexual undertaker and becomes a door-to-door peddler, sweeping bored housewives into his arms while whispering the praises of a new miracle cleaner. Next he lapses into adultery with his former steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret's wriggly portrayal of a hick-town temptress requires orchestral accompaniment, their romance tends to slacken whenever the jukebox goes dead. Bus finally readjusts to civilian life by discovering that happiness is a rebuilt carburetor...
...Margret Merry, executive assistant to the President of Boston University said the student proposal was "not feasible even if it were to be considered desirable." B.U. President Harold C. Case is out of the country and has made no comment on the issue...
First, though, he meets Ann-Margret, who wriggles by the garage to coo: "I'd like you to check my motor." Once her motor turns over, it seldom stops. Neither does the movie, mostly because Ann-Margret-whose scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest...