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...concerned with its own success as a financial endeavor. Sneed and Fulp see this problem differently. "There are factions of both the black and white community that are watching to see whether we are going to pass the supreme test of survival," Sneed said. But Fulp refuses to succumb to this pressure...
...among nations; for speculators, hoarders and industrial users, the price was freed to find its own level in the marketplace. To make the system work, the central banks agreed to buy no newly mined metal. They also agreed to sell no gold whatever to any country that might then succumb to the profitable temptation to unload official gold reserves in the free market, where the price has hovered around...
...premise--British actors performing a campy American Western--ceases to be funny about thirty seconds into the first act. The feeble gags swarm around such familiar territories as the human anatomy, drunks, queers, and race (Authors Ray Galton and Alan Simpson even succumb to having a whiteman tell an Indian, "You all look alike to me.") As you might expect, the script is littered with countless unfunny versions of Western cliches (e.g., "Seldom have I heard so many discouraging words...
...film develops, the workers succumb not through ideological but moral weakness: slogans aside, they hold bourgeois values. At the outset Carlos, cigarette dangling from his proletarian lip, tells his working class lover, "Someday I'll make it big...I want the cake, not just the crumbs." Twenty minutes later we see them both bedfellows of their bourgeois employers...
...films, you may succumb to sneaking suspicions that some of the advertised shots never appear. This may be deliberately false advertising, but more than likely the scenes in question--certain to be the most sordid in the films--fell beneath a censor's scissors...