Word: tapeworm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burly, unblinking Tsafendas sat in the dock, his head bobbing, his lips forming soundless words, the experts described him as a schizophrenic haunted by the obsession that a tapeworm was coiled up inside his stomach, gnawing and cutting him to pieces. Over the past 30 years, they added, Tsafendas had been a mental patient in five countries, including the U.S., and had escaped from at least two institutions. Settling down in South Africa, Tsafendas somehow landed his messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that...
...launched the French New Wave, proves that with honest camera work and well-motivated plot films may be excitingly nouvelle without being murkily vague. Fiasco in Milan. This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes. Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Françoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World...
Fiasco in Milan. This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes...
Fiasco in Milan. This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Flubber-faced Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes, but early-bird honors still go to Pisacane: he's got the worm...
...feed his tapeworm, Capannelle long ago was driven to a career of crime. In Big Deal on Madonna Street, he became a notorious icebox robber. In Fiasco, a mildly amusing sequel to that uproarious comedy of criminal errors, the tapeworm is bigger than ever, and poor Capannelle has been forced to seek state support for a dependent he cannot declare. According to the script, he frequently strolls into a fancy restaurant, gums his way through an eight-course dinner, tsks at the check, turns out his pockets, toddles off to prison and a month of free meals...