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FRIDAY: Wait Until Dark (1967). Fascinating suspense thriller features Audrey Hepburn, in her most recent movie role, as a blind girl terrorized by a heroin smuggler. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
...familiar not only from Bunuel's Viridiana and Tristana but also as the crafty dope smuggler in The French Connection, plays the ambassador of a country called Miranda; his exquisitely developed sense of hypocrisy binds him close to his Parisian friends and even closer to Miss Seyrig, a friend's wife with whom he is indulging a perfunctory passion. With his companions Cassel and Frankeur, he is also earning a tidy stipend on the side by smuggling cocaine in his inviolate diplomatic briefcase. Their only concern, besides the ambassadors incessant fear of revolutionaries, is "a gang in Marseille...
...Paris in April 1971 as his country's new Ambassador to France. One key item of his luggage was not passed by customs at Orly airport: a valise containing 123 Ibs. of pure heroin. Informed of the incident, President Georges Pompidou refused to accept Sopsaisana's credentials and the smuggler-prince was soon back in Vientiane...
...women airline passengers to travel to Miami with cocaine or heroin hidden in their girdles or in false-bottomed suitcases. Near Santiago there is a factory specializing in making suitcases with hidden compartments. The agents are catching more and more such carriers, in part through use of a secret "smuggler's profile"?a telltale behavior pattern apparently common to amateur smugglers...
...narrow stairs until I climbed up there with the trafficker. But they started to come down too soon. I felt the automatic in my back. When I heard the hammer click, I dived forward and prayed. There were bullets all around, as usual, but none in me-or the smuggler, for that matter. He got away...