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...number: a free ticket to a tie-in lottery run by a film company. Gabriele wrote his name and address on the postcard and mailed it off to Rome-but without the stamp. A few days later, while he was on holiday at the coastal town of Recco, a pickpocket got Gabriele's wallet, containing some $24 and ticket...
Pickup on South Street (20th Century-Fox) is a 90-minute muscle-flexing exercise in violence. A pickpocket (Richard Widmark) slaps a former roadhouse entertainer (Jean Peters) in the teeth, knocks her out with a right to the jaw, and revives her by pouring a bottle of beer in her face. The B-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle. A Communist spy (Richard Kiley) beats up and shoots the girl, hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks...
...were primitive, but Shanghaied and Triple Trouble are barbaric. With no dialogue they are still far from silent. Loud, incongruous music blares and the celluloid flickers and snaps. What is more, Chaplin is an unpolished beginner. Only when he dances with a mutton leg or steals from a pickpocket is there a hint of the comedy Chaplin will later achieve...
Black Sheep. In Manhattan, Solomon Bauman, 73, picked up on a pickpocket charge, pleaded with the court not to tell his sister: "It would kill her. She thinks I'm a gambler...
Preview. In Paris, Couturier Christian Dior received this letter: "Please excuse me for bothering you, but I would like to know where you intend putting the pockets on your winter coats-signed, A Modest Pickpocket...