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...made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud to beg for it, and too honorable to steal happiness on the sly. They dream of going to Moscow, the perennial illusion of the despairing that life is more real, rich and exciting somewhere else...
...slow burn. One morning fortnight ago, he said Mass, then went to the Greater Los Angeles Press Club and loosed his thunderbolt against the cardinal. He spent the rest of the day, heart in mouth, teaching some of the parish kids how to play a game called "Steal the Bacon...
...Royal Society, he modestly described his work, done in collaboration with Indian Mathematician Jayant V. Narlikar, as a slight extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity. "We are clearly aware," he explained, "that in putting forward still another idea we may be like small boys trying to steal apples...
...finds it, but then he finds so many other wonderful things to steal that the sight sobers him and he runs off to collect a more efficient colleague (Ann Sothern). Poor slob, he also collects three predatory teenagers, two boys and a girl, who tail him back to the mansion, snatch his boodle, conk him cold and, finding nothing better to do, kill...
...tone as the crusty old Thane of Skandia, a bankrupt shipbuilder with a voice like a rockslide. Searching for the legendary Golden Bell, a thing of booty "as tall as three men, and cast by the monks of Byzantium," Homolka's sons Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn steal the Norse King's funeral ship as well as his shapely daughter (Yugoslavia's Beba Loncar), and head south. All that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother of Voices," but hears only...