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...police. Scotland Yard is led by Mac's old army buddy, the powerful Tiger-Brown (Patrick Clean), whose own daughter Lucy (Cynthia Dickason) is also married secretly to Mac. Mac is arrested twice. The women fight for his allegiance. He is saved at the very end by a royal pardon which also grants him peerage...
...Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught out by the two old fogies, the superscamp gains their pardon, and hoodwinks the pair again, by pretending to breathe his last. At the end of the mazelike plot, everyone is wreathed in smiles, especially the audience...
...mind not to prosecute in the event of resignation, apparently reflecting what he believes would be the general public relief at having been spared the impeachment trauma. Attorney General William Saxbe would probably not move on his own. And Gerald Ford could, of course, agree to grant a pardon or block prosecution once he is President...
...President then turns the conversation to how Dean could be kept from telling the prosecutors too much. In a potentially damaging portion of the transcript, the President suggests that Ehrlichman hint to Dean that only Nixon can pardon him. For his part, Ehrlichman implies that a plan is needed to ensure that the testimony of Dean and others does not involve the President. The crucial segments...
Tristana. "Sex without religion is like an egg without salt." Luis Bunuel--probably the most fanatical anti-cleric in the history of Iberian civilization--said that, with characteristic lucidity, of this his most lucid film. But it really is lucid: for once, there's no need to pardon this aging genius his obscure symbology or warped sense of humor or ideological obsessions, because Tristana is a beautifully integrated masterpiece. An aging gentleman (Fernando Rey) exploits a young and nunnish dependent (Catherine Deneuve) until she snatches the dominating role away from him, becoming perhaps the crueler tyrant. The story threads lightly...