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...hard-hat type of guy (making $160 a week and enjoying it less) who one day hears a stranger sitting next to him at a bar confess to a murder. This stranger, you see, is a $60,000-a-year advertising exec who has just killed his wayward daughter's junkie-freak boyfriend and has no fears about admitting his crime to the first person he sees...
When Crowhurst's logbooks were examined, the story became stranger still. Though his radio messages had him circling the globe, Crowhurst's daily log entries revealed that he had never left the Atlantic. The logs, moreover, contained almost unintelligible passages-25,000 words in all-and documented an eerie religious revelation experienced by Crowhurst in the closing weeks of his voyage. There was also what appeared to be a three-page suicide note...
Into this delicate if hostile world, man has burst as a stranger. "There is a new urgency for knowledge of the tundra," says Zoologist Frank Pitelka of Berkeley. "We now have a Texas-size threat to a land doubtfully able to take it." In the past two years, however, the major oil companies have compiled an excellent record. They have hired Arctic ecologists to help minimize the effects of their presence, even going so far as to develop hardy strains of grass to protect the tundra. Helicopters move whole drilling rigs to avoid ripping up the topsoil. Three companies have...
Thanks to Clement's superb sense of mood and control, the film skips along so briskly that the viewer forgets that two hours is a long time to spend watching an ancient contrivance complete with a menacing stranger, misleading extra corpses and mixed handbags of loot...
From a window in the Riviera resort of Hyeres, Mellie (Marlene Jobert) sees a stranger carrying a red airlines bag. He looks too creepy to be anything but a sex deviate; sure enough, he breaks into her home and rapes her. When he lingers on, she drops him with twin blasts from a double-barreled shotgun, throws his body into the sea and puts his watch and wallet in the furnace. She does not tell her husband Tony, a pilot who has the grace to be in flight while she is being pursued by a grinning, hard-eyed investigator named...