Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verdicts in Advance. Arrests are almost always violent and without warrants; arresting officers rarely show proof that they are agents of the law, but burst into their quarry's home at night, brush off his explanations, wreck his belongings, pocket his valuables and hustle him off to jail in his underwear. Verdicts, said one court stenographer who took part in many of the trials, are "by remote control," the judge's opinion often written in advance...
...been snared in the coils of British intelligence. At first, he said, he had no idea what the brown packages or boxes of chocolates really contained. After it dawned on him that he was a spy, he demanded no part of the "dirty business." but his superiors threatened to wreck his commercial affairs, and so he kept at it. "My answers might seem naive to you professional gentlemen here," he said, to the laughter of the courtroom, "but I had no idea how intelligence operated. I now know." Even before the prosecutor finished his summation...
Five Miles to Midnight. Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins in a thriller about a ne'er-do-well who escapes from a plane wreck and involves his wife in a plot to collect his life insurance. It is good, solid, black-and-white suspense stuff...
Five Miles to Midnight. Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins in a thriller that might have been a sort of Psycaccio. But this film about a neurotic ne'er-do-well who escapes from a plane wreck believed to have killed him and forces his wife to go along with a plot to collect his life insurance, is good, solid black-and-white suspense stuff...
...door. It is Robert, bleeding and disheveled, but still smiling his winsome smile, and still alive. "Airplanes." he explains, "do funny things before they crash." So do plot lines. It seems that the emergency exit blew out and he dropped on a hilltop a mile from the wreck...