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Living far from home and close to the bone, the aging agent has a few elemental joys: cigarettes, a glass of wine, and women-his mistress (Ingrid Thulin) and a girl (Genevieve Bujold) who believes that a man so far left must be Mr. Right. A dry, desperate soul, Diego nonetheless has a fugitive imagination as agile as an alley cat and a sixth sense of survival in a treacherous by-world of Byzantine complexity...
...Guerre has no real beginning or end. At the film's conclusion, Diego is off to Spain to instigate a hopeless general strike in Madrid, unaware that the policia are closing in. His mistress boards a plane to bring him back to the safe harbor of France, fearful that she may be too late, that this time he has finally bought a one-way ticket home. The official French entry at last May's Cannes Festival, La Guerre was withdrawn from competition under pressure from Spain. It is easy to see why: the villain of the piece...
Living far from home and close to the bone, the aging agent has a few elemental joys: cigarettes, a glass of wine, and women - his mistress (Ingrid Thulin) and a girl (Genevieve Bujold) who believes that a man so far left must be Mr. Right. A dry, desperate soul, Diego nonetheless has a fugitive imagination as agile as an alley cat and a sixth sense of survival in a treacherous by-world of Byzantine complexity...
Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw-whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets...
Room 1026, the Audubon Suite, is occupied by Kevin McCarthy and Catherine Spaak, a hotel tycoon and the ornamental mistress he has purchased with his profits. A pious fraud who prays before he preys, McCarthy is determined by deal or steal to make the charming old hotel of the title just one more link in his chain. In an attempt to corrupt Hotel Manager Rod Taylor, McCarthy shamelessly offers him Spaak as a bribe. Rod likes, she likes. In the end, the villain misses a mistress...