Word: ricochet
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...Stanley Donen, the film's co-director and co-dancemaster), Dan Dailey and feather-footed Michael Kidd, the dancer and choreographer, in his first film role. Returning to the U.S. when World War II ends, the three army pals, mutually jittery about the prospects of renewed civilian life, ricochet up and down Manhattan's sleazy Third Avenue in one of the most ably choreographed binges ever unreeled...
...Good Die Young (Romulus; United Artists) is just a little ricochet romance, U.S. style. Three men in a pub (Richard Basehart, John Ireland, Stanley Baker), all decent fellows but down on their luck, meet a fourth (Laurence Harvey), who persuades them to steal a shipment of old bank notes from a mail truck. When the job is done, the villain slaughters all three of his accomplices, but in the last reel the meat wagon comes around for him, too. The playing is brisk, but the story takes too long to untangle itself. The good die somewhat...
...Ricochet Romance. In Hutchinson, Kans., Bill Dennis and Pat Gough finally said "I do" after a wedding day in which 1) Dennis forgot to pick up the license, 2) Pastor Lonnie Smith became ill, 3) the bride's brother failed to arrive, 4) the air conditioning blew out the church candles, 5) Dennis, waiting at the altar, discovered he had misplaced the ring...
...propulsion was supplied by Groucho's trademarked wit, which tends to ricochet off the commonplace and explode in star shells of mutual misunderstanding. Beginning with a casual question about the contestant's background, Groucho is soon off in a blaze of barbed and ribald non sequiturs. "And do you have any little thieves at home?" he once asked a baseball umpire. Introducing a dealer in war surplus, he inquired solicitously: "How many times have you been indicted?" Learning from a dress designer that women dress for themselves, he observed with a happy leer: "If they dressed...
...battle on the Champs Elysees reached its worst phase just before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...