Word: underworlders
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...favor of it." Wilkerson dropped out of Mesa College in Colorado after one year, married, divorced and knocked about in a couple of ill-fated business schemes. He then went to work for Houston Businessman Don Fantich, who local police suspected was an operator in the penumbra of the underworld...
...reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment that is also a journey through the underworld and a harrowing of hell...
...army of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), FBI and U.S. Customs agents, backed by E-3A Sentry planes and Army Cobra helicopter gunships. While the traditional routes through the Florida Keys and Miami have not been totally abandoned by smugglers, the operation has clearly thrown a scare into the drug underworld. Last week President Reagan vividly reaffirmed White House support for the campaign with a cheerleading visit to South Florida. He reviewed an impressive array of confiscated drugs, weapons and cash and paid tribute to the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Dauntless, which received a presidential citation...
...embodies this order, and thus serves as the figurehead of the underworld community. His unmistakable style is as much a function of his well-groomed physical authority and grace, reflecting a rigid moral code. Bob serves as an example to all around him, including his protege Polo (Daniel Cauchy), who strains to emulate him at every turn. Next to some of the violent, cynical figures that populate the American underworld film landscape. Bob almost appears as a typical French bourgeois moyen in his well-being and self-righteousness...
There are two things that endanger the balance of Bob's world: women and gambling. The film's underworld is essentially a male universe. Women are by nature not to be trusted, and the two principal ones in the film act as the main catalysts of trouble. Anne (Isabelle Corey), an aimless young woman who, as the narrator wryly comments, is "very advanced for her age," is an example of the threat. To protect her from pimps, Bob takes her in, but she is dangerously at odds with Bob's world. She is voluptuous, innocent and lacks an established moral...