Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserve tanks ran dry and he had to switch to the main fuel tank. Lucky Moppie stopped dead. By the time Bertram got his engines going again, Abbott's Rum Runner, damaged as it was, had passed everybody and was in front to stay. Up to the Nassau pier roared Rum Runner, and an official waved her in. "Hell, no!" yelled Abbott. "This boat is sinking. We're going to beach...
Roving mobs of cold, bored teenagers swarmed over Clacton's pier, smashing windows, overturning cars, stealing liquor. Pistol in hand, one youth used a big storefront window for target practice. When a local type admonished the rioters, he was tossed over a 20-ft. bridge. Clacton police called for reinforcements from a neighboring town, fought pitched battles with the teenagers, many of whom were armed with ax handles and furniture legs. Finally the bobbies restored order: over 60 youths were arrested on charges ranging from burglary to assault...
Perkins claims that he was strolling on the pier after refusing-an aging degenerate's offer of 2,000,000 francs for one of his paintings-and the painter. Con Man Jean-Claude Brialy says he spent the night of the crime trying to peddle his kid sister to a tourist. And Gigolo Renato Salvatori was supposedly helping his latest client recover from an overdose of sleeping pills. As the case of "the triplets" unfolds, police and jury realize that they may have to free two murderers to save one innocent man. But the really guilty ones are Director...
NIGHT TIDE. In this promising first film by a young writer-director named Curtis Harrington, a young U.S. sailor is lured toward destruction by a Lorelei who lives under a pier in Venice, Calif...
...were Edgar Allan Poe with a megaphone, and most of the time the experiment succeeds. He heightens reality, giving a nightmare quality to commonplace events. Soon even the ripple of bath water begins to sound ominous. In one scene, punctuated by echoes, the pilings under an old pier are transformed into a forest of briny, fearful enchantment...