Word: robber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throwing Temper Tantrums. Here is a Lear with a willful, robber baron strain of not quite legitimate authority. The viewer feels that he has carved out his kingdom just as he proposes to carve up the map of England for his daughters. As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone. Cobb reveals how the fool in Lear is intrinsically a child. This 80-year-old is an eight-year-old in disguise, throwing...
Emulating such meticulous metaphysicians of suspense as Graham Greene and John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of Forbes' meaningful silences and rambunctious camerawork. The arch dialogue is genuine tin (exhausted heroine to Caine: "Have you done it very often in strange rooms with girls who have husbands?"). In the best anti-hero tradition, Caine dies by bungling his last job, losing the girl and getting shot...
...that was a J.F.K. favorite during his summer White House days. Came evening, and she was at Father-in-Law Joe Kennedy's house for a quiet family dinner and a private screening of The Thomas Crown Affair, the story of a swinging Boston millionaire-turned-bank-robber...
...three congenial supervisors. It hardly seemed probable that on such an idyllic summer expedition, the boys were there only because a court said they had to be. But that was indeed the case. All 14 were juvenile delinquents - two-and three-time offenders from chronic truants to an armed robber...
...robber soon fall in love; but McQueen trusts no one, and to put Faye to the test he bitterly stages another heist. She counters with an ambush that leads to a surprise ending slightly less suspenseful than the one in the Hansel and Gretel affair...