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...herself accompanying a detachment of French Foreign Legionnaires to Morocco just after World War I. The Legionnaires are assigned to protect a French archaeological expedition against attacks by uppity Arab tribes who seem to think they have a right to their own national treasures. Deneuve is attracted to a roguish cat burglar (Terence Hill), who is seeking refuge in the Legion from the cops. Having already lost a husband and father to war, however, she wants no more entanglements, no more feeling. To spare Hill, she throws herself at the embittered West Point reject (Gene Hackman) who commands the Legionnaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Instant Late Show | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...another key part, that of the Devil, Tony van Bridge lacks a bit of the roguish, demonic assurance that Charles Laughton once brought to the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: GBS: Holy Terrorist of Iconoclasm | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...being shot for his revolutionary activities, the rumor arose that he was protected by the German regime. Decades later in Mexico, Marut-Torsvan-Croves-Traven seems to have hinted mischievously that he was the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm and an American actress. What is so absurd about this roguish fancy is that it cannot be dismissed as so absurd; scandal has long been part of the royal German tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of the Chase | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...irrepressible romp filtered through Ben Jonson's Volpone with hilarious contemporary precision. George C. Scott, Bob Dishy and Jack Gilford are three roguish musketeers of avarice and mirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Year's Ten Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Although the ancestral search has not yet unearthed the proverbial skeleton, Varn says he did chance upon a few colorful progenitors, a group of roguish "banditti" who cavorted along the Mexican border during the Civil...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenan, | Title: Antebellum Christmas With Jeff in the Monticello Graveyard | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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